abacination

en-noun

abacination (countable and uncountable, plural abacinations)

/əˌbæsɪˈneɪʃən/

That blind general lost his sight by the process of abacination.

1902, James Meeker Ludlow, Incentives for Life, Personal and Public, page 144:

Her warmth and radiance had blinded him, a self-inflicted abacination.

1972, Trevanian (pseud.), The Eiger Sanction, Ballantine, published 1984, →ISBN, page 105:

I, who had seen so many brandings and abacinations, and had even used the iron myself (among the billion things I recall perfectly is the flesh of Morwenna's cheeks blistering), could scarcely force myself to go and look at him.

1982, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXIV, in The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun; 3), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 179:

The act of abacinating, of blinding with the light from hot metal


abrasion

abrasion (countable and uncountable, plural abrasions)

/əˈbɹeɪ.ʒn̩/

First attested in 1656. From French abrasion (attested since 1611), from Medieval Latin abrasio (“a scraping”), from Latin abrādō (“scrape off”). See also abrade.

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
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The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.

(obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.

(medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.

(dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.

kuluminen

dentistry: wearing away of the surface of the tooth


wound

Noun from Middle English wund, from Old English wund, from Proto-Germanic *wundō. Verb from Middle English wunden, from Old English wundian, from Proto-Germanic *wundōną.

The visitors were without Wayne Rooney after he suffered a head wound in training, which also keeps him out of England's World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine.

2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1-0 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:

Showers of blood / Rained from the wounds of slaughtered Englishmen.

1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act 3, scene 3]:

I went below, and did what I could for my wound; it pained me a good deal, and still bled freely; but it was neither deep nor dangerous, nor did it greatly gall me when I used my arm.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:

An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.


burn

burn (countable and uncountable, plural burns)

From Middle English bernen, birnen, from Old English birnan (“to burn”), metathesis from Proto-West Germanic *brinnan, from Proto-Germanic *brinnaną (“to burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrenw-, present stem from *bʰrewh₁-. Doublet of brew.
See also Middle Irish brennim (“drink up”), bruinnim (“bubble up”); also Middle Irish bréo (“flame”), Albanian burth (“Cyclamen hederifolium, mouth burning”), Sanskrit भुरति (bhurati, “moves quickly, twitches, fidgets”). More at brew.

cog

She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire.

A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.

chili burn from eating hot peppers


burn

en-verb

burn (third-person singular simple present burns, present participle burning, simple past and past participle burned or (mostly Commonwealth) burnt or (obsolete) brent)

burns (present singular third-person)
burning (participle present)
burned (participle past)
burned (past)
burnt (Commonwealth participle past)
burnt (Commonwealth past)
brent (obsolete participle past)
brent (obsolete past)
burn (infinitive)

Sranan Tongo: bron

Aukan: boon

verbranden

chemistry: to cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent

She forgot to put on sunscreen and burned.


cut

en-adj

cut (comparative more cut, superlative most cut)

more cut (comparative)
most cut (superlative)

From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.

cog

female genital mutilation
female genital mutilation

(informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.

silvottu

colloquial: circumcised — see also circumcised


slash

Uncertain. Compare Scots slash (“large splash”), possibly from Old French esclache. Slang use for urination attested from the 1950s.

That bus shelter smells of slash.


flapper

(climbing) Any injury that results in a loose flap of skin on the fingers, making gripping difficult.


bruise

en-verb

bruise (third-person singular simple present bruises, present participle bruising, simple past and past participle bruised)

bruises (present singular third-person)
bruising (participle present)
bruised (participle past)
bruised (past)

From Middle English bruisen, brusen, brosen, brisen, bresen, from a merger two words, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (“to break”):
* Old English brȳsan, brīesan (“to bruise; crush”), from Proto-Germanic *brausijaną, *brūsijaną (“to break; crumble; crack”). Provided the word's sense.
* Anglo-Norman bruiser, bruser (“to break, smash, shatter”), from Gaulish *brus-, from Proto-Celtic *bruseti (“to break”). Provided the word's form.
Cognate with Scots brizz, German brausen (“to roar; boom; pound”), Old English brosnian (“to crumble, fall apart”), Dutch broos (“brittle”), German Brosame (“crumb”), dialectal Norwegian brøysk (“breakable”), Latin frustum (“bit, scrap”), Old Church Slavonic бръснути (brŭsnuti, “to rake”), Albanian breshër (“hail”).

cog

Her thoughtless remarks bruised my ego.

I was bruised by such wanton criticism.

(transitive, figurative) To harm or injure somebody's feelings or self-esteem.


gall

en-noun

gall (countable and uncountable, plural galls)

From Middle English galle, from Old English ġealla, galla, from Proto-West Germanic *gallā, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ.
The figurative senses (e.g., impudence, brazenness, chutzpah) are related to the literal sense (i.e., bile) via the lasting linguocultural effects of humorism, which governed Western medicine for many centuries before the advent of scientific medicine.
Related to Dutch gal, German Galle, Swedish galle, galla, Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ). Also remotely related with yellow.

(physiology, archaic, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 29:18:

The stage its ancient fury thus let fall, / And comedy diverted without gall.

[…] I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall […]

1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XIV, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:

(figurative, uncountable) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.


gall

en-verb

gall (third-person singular simple present galls, present participle galling, simple past and past participle galled)

galls (present singular third-person)
galling (participle present)
galled (participle past)
galled (past)

From Middle English galle, from Old English gealla (“a fretted spot on the skin”), from Proto-West Germanic *gallō, from Proto-Germanic *gallô (“infirmity, swelling, lesion”).

inh

The disposition for these detachments is as follows – Morgans corps, to gain the enemy’s right flank; Maxwells brigade to hang on their left. Brigadier Genl. Scott is now marching with a very respectable detachment destined to gall the enemys left flank and rear.

June 24, 1778, George Washington, The Writings of George Washington From the Original Manuscript Sources: Volume 12, 1745–1799

(transitive, figurative) To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.


dislocation

en-noun

dislocation (countable and uncountable, plural dislocations)

From Middle English, from Old French, a borrowing from Medieval Latin dislocātiō, delocatio.

(geology) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally occupied.


evisceration

evisceration (countable and uncountable, plural eviscerations)

The evisceration of the animal was accomplished with a single blow of the knife.

A disemboweling; the removal of viscera.


frostbite

frostbite (countable and uncountable, plural frostbites)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-frostbite.wav

An injury suffered as a result of freezing of some part of the body, typically fingers, toes or the nose.


injury

en-verb

injury (third-person singular simple present injuries, present participle injurying, simple past and past participle injuried)

injuries (present singular third-person)
injurying (participle present)
injuried (participle past)
injuried (past)

From Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin iniūria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + iūs, iūris (“right, law”). Doublet of injuria.

der

The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.

(transitive, obsolete) To wrong, to injure.


shiner

From Middle English schyner, equivalent to shine + -er. Compare Old English sċīnere (“one who produces deceptive appearances, magician”).


trauma

en-noun

trauma (countable and uncountable, plural traumas or traumata)

→ Japanese: トラウマ

From Ancient Greek τραῦμα (traûma, “wound, damage”).

der

trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy

Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.

Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.

2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian:

An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.


contusion

en-noun

contusion (countable and uncountable, plural contusions)

Borrowed from Middle French contusion, from Latin contūsiōnem, accusative singular of contūsiō, from contūsus, past participle of contundō (“to beat”), from com- + tundō (“to beat”).

(medicine, countable) Synonym of bruise.


SBS

sick building syndrome
sick building syndrome#English

(pathology) Initialism of sick building syndrome, health effects experienced by building occupants that appear to be linked to time spent in a building.


whiplash

whiplash (countable and uncountable, plural whiplashes)

An injury to the upper spine connected to a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction, resembling the motion of a whip.


puncture

en-verb

puncture (third-person singular simple present punctures, present participle puncturing, simple past and past participle punctured)

punctures (present singular third-person)
puncturing (participle present)
punctured (participle past)
punctured (past)

The needle punctured the balloon instantly.

The couple all bloody / Tongues punctured by each other's teeth / Died and didn't let go

2013, clipping. (lyrics and music), “story”, in midcity:

To pierce; to break through; to tear a hole.


scrape

en-noun

scrape (countable and uncountable, plural scrapes)

From Middle English scrapen, from Old Norse skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”) and Old English scrapian (“to scrape, scratch”), both from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skrebʰ- (“to engrave”). Cognate with Dutch schrapen (“to scrape”), schrappen (“to strike through; to cancel; to scrap”), schrabben (“to scratch”), German schrappen (“to scrape”), Danish skrabe (“to scrape”), Icelandic skrapa (“to scrape”), Walloon screper (“to scrape”), Latin scribō (“dig with a pen, draw, write”).

cog

He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.

A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

A'm goin to the barber's for a scrape.

1945, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, page 66:


avulsion

en-noun

avulsion (countable and uncountable, plural avulsions)

(medicine, pathology) The loss or separation of a body part, either by surgery or due to trauma.


amputation

amputation (countable and uncountable, plural amputations)

Borrowed from Middle French amputation, borrowed from Latin amputātiō (“pruning (of a tree)”).


snakebite

snakebite (countable and uncountable, plural snakebites)

We agreed to go down to the bar and get a snakebite together, […]

2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 231:

(countable, uncountable) A drink made by mixing hard cider and lager.


hematoma

hematoma (plural hematomas or hematomata)

From hemato- + -oma. Among the many words derived from -oma that are in current common use, this word is one of only a few that do not denote a neoplasm; another is granuloma.

(pathology) A swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of broken blood vessels.


goose egg

From the oval shape of both a goose's egg and the Arabic numeral zero (0).

(informal) A swelling caused by a bump on the head.


fracture

/ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃə/

/ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃɚ/

From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin fractūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.

der

(medicine) A break in bone or cartilage.

骨折

(medicine) a break in a bone or cartilage


black eye

"You got a black eye out of him, and that's for publication. We can't have this reign of terror, Mr. Malone."

1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

A periorbital hematoma; a visible bruise surrounding a person's eye; an assault causing such a bruise; the eye involved.


first-degree burn

en-noun

first-degree burn (plural first-degree burns)

A mild burn that causes redness of the skin but no blistering.


second-degree burn

second-degree burn (plural second-degree burns)

a burn, more severe than a first-degree burn, that blisters the skin


third-degree burn

third-degree burn (plural third-degree burns)

A severe burn that destroys skin and underlying tissue and exposes nerve endings.


deglove

en-verb

deglove (third-person singular simple present degloves, present participle degloving, simple past and past participle degloved)

degloves (present singular third-person)
degloving (participle present)
degloved (participle past)
degloved (past)

To peel back the skin from part of the body as if removing a glove, especially as the result of an accident.


concussion

en-noun

concussion (countable and uncountable, plural concussions)

(uncountable in Commonwealth, countable in Canada, US) An injury to part of the body, most especially the brain, caused by a violent blow, followed by loss of function.


laceration

laceration (countable and uncountable, plural lacerations)

/læsəˈɹeɪʃən/

The doctor sewed up the laceration in his arm.

Survivors of the crash suffered injuries ranging from broken bones to lacerations, permanent disfigurements, and psychiatric trauma.

2023 October 18, “Network News: Carmont: NR pays nearly £1m in out-of-court settlements”, in RAIL, number 994, page 15:

An irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue.

разкъсна рана

an irregular open wound caused by a blunt impact to soft tissue


dirty wound

clean wound

wound that is infected or is susceptible to infection

An external wound, primarily an untreated cut or tear of the skin, easily susceptible to infection as a result of exposure to unsanitary conditions, as would be likely at time of injury.


rugburn

rugburn (countable and uncountable, plural rugburns)

The ombudsman found that youth living at El Pueblo remained under the care and supervision of staff who had been accused of abusing them. In one case, a youth was reportedly dragged across the carpet by two staff members, resulting in rugburns on his face.

2019 August 13, “A Pueblo center for troubled kids had 243 abuse allegations in the year before it closed”, in The Colorado Sun:

The rugburn became increasingly inflamed, and, through trembling lips, which were pursed as if to whistle, my cure began singing its sublime, plaintive painsong.

2021, Adam Levin, Bubblegum, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 9:

(countable) A painful burn or redness of skin, especially on knees, elbows, and hands, from repetitive friction against a rug or similar surface.


scratch

scratch (countable and uncountable, plural scratches)

From Middle English scracchen, of uncertain origin. Probably a blend of Middle English scratten (“to scratch”) and cracchen (“to scratch”). More at scrat and cratch.

It's just a scratch!


keloid

19th century, from French chéloïde, from Ancient Greek χηλή (khēlḗ, “hoof”) and -oid.

It gave her otherwise plain face a broken excitement and blue-blade threat like the keloid scar of the razored man who sometimes played checkers with her grandmother.

(pathology) A hard raised growth of scar tissue at the site of an injury.


polytrauma

polytrauma (countable and uncountable, plural polytraumas)

(emergency medicine) The condition of a person who has been subjected to multiple traumatic injuries.


road rash

Coordinate term: rink rash

(colloquial) skin and bone injury caused by abrasion with road surfaces


ecchymosis

ecchymosis (countable and uncountable, plural ecchymoses)

From New Latin ecchymōsis, from Ancient Greek ἐκχύμωσις (ekkhúmōsis), from ἐκχέω (ekkhéō, “I pour out”), from ἐκ- (ek-, “out”) + χέω (khéō, “I pour”).

A diseased condition of the skin has often been mistaken for stigmatic marks. Such, for instance, is ecchymosis, a discoloration of the skin due to the extravasation of subcutaneous blood.

1978, Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine, Routledge, page 273:

A skin discoloration caused by bleeding underneath the skin, especially one that is remote from a site of trauma or caused by a nontraumatic process (such as neoplasia).

синина

leaking of blood into the tissues of the body as a result of a bruise


sunburn

sunburn (countable and uncountable, plural sunburns)

From Middle English *sunne burnen, *sonne brennen, *sunne brennen (suggested by derivatives sonne brennynge, sunne brennynge (“sunburn”, literally “sun-burning”) and sunne brente (“sunburnt”), equivalent to sun + burn. Compare West Frisian sinnebrân (“sunburn”), Dutch zonnebrand (“sunburn”), German Sonnenbrand (“sunburn”), Swedish solbränna (“sunburn”), and Icelandic sólbruni (“sunburn”), as well as Old English sunbryne (“sunburn”).

A burn on the tissue of crop plants or their fruits (especially if they are rich in water like tomatoes, grapes, apples, gooseberries) caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.


carpet burn

More unusual marks occur when a child is pushed against a patterned object, such as the imprint of a carpet or a carpet burn where the child's body skids along the carpet.

1996, Kim R.Oates, The Spectrum of Child Abuse: assessment, treatment, and prevention, page 51:

Sweet reunion, Jamaica and Spain
We're like how we were again
I'm in the tub you're on the seat
Lick your lips as I soak my feet
Then you notice lickle carpet burn
My stomach drops and my guts churn
You shrug and it's the worst
Who truly stuck the knife in first?

2007 Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good(verse 3)

A skin injury caused by friction with a carpet or similar surface.


exenteration

exenteration (countable and uncountable, plural exenterations)

/ɛksɛntəˈɹeɪʃən/

(surgery) The surgical removal of all the contents of a body cavity such as the pelvis or the orbit.

egzenteracja

How to keep the corps seven dayes from corruption by anointing and washing, without exenteration, were an hazardable peece of art, in our choisest practise.

1658. Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, p. 27

(obsolete) The process or fact of removing the entrails; evisceration.


effraction

effraction (countable and uncountable, plural effractions)

(medicine) A bone fracture where the bone breaks the surface of the skin.


disembowelment

disembowelment (countable and uncountable, plural disembowelments)


needlestick injury

needlestick injury (plural needlestick injuries)

The nurse developed hepatitis as a result of a needlestick injury.

Puncture of the skin by a hypodermic needle or other sharp object.


exit wound

Exit wounds, whether they are the result of contact, intermediate, or distant firing, all have the same general characteristics. They are typically larger and more irregular than entrance wounds and, with rare exception, do not possess an abrasion ring. Exit wounds can be stellate, slit-like, crescent, circular, or completely irregular (Figure 4.23).

1998, Vincent J. M. Di Maio, Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 92:

(medicine, forensics) A perforation of the skin caused by a projectile (such as a bullet) leaving the body.


flesh wound

I found him dreadfully bruised, worse even than myself, perhaps owing to the excessive whiteness of his skin, and faint and weak with the loss of blood from the flesh wound in his side, but for all that cheerful as a cricket, and asking for some breakfast.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

An injury which pierces the skin and causes bleeding, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs, and does not carry a serious threat of death.

輕傷

injury which pierces the skin, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs


entry wound

(pathology, forensics) A wound caused by a bullet or other object as it enters the body, as contrasted with exit wound.


road burn

(colloquial) skin injury caused by abrasion with road surfaces


compression fracture

compression fracture (plural compression fractures)

(pathology) Any fracture of a bone (most often a load-bearing bone such as a vertebra) caused by compression


luxation

luxation (countable and uncountable, plural luxations)

From Late Latin luxatio: compare French luxation.

lens luxation

The fore-arm, in this luxation, is in a state of half-flexion

1818, Samuel Cooper, A Dictionary of Practical Surgery:

a laterally bowed distal femur might allow medial patellar luxation. As this repeatedly luxates, the medial trochlear ridge may become worn down, thereby increasing the frequency of luxation.

2000, Hamish Denny, Steve Butterworth, A Guide to Canine and Feline Orthopaedic Surgery:

(medicine) The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation or displacement.


open wound

Open wounds often cause heavy bleeding and grave danger of invasive infection.

A wound which pierces the skin (and/or exterior bones), so as to bare flesh and/or internal organs.


flail chest

(pathology) A severe injury of the rib cage where fragments of ribs become detached from the rest of the cage.


sunscald

en-verb

sunscald (third-person singular simple present sunscalds, present participle sunscalding, simple past and past participle sunscalded)

sunscalds (present singular third-person)
sunscalding (participle present)
sunscalded (participle past)
sunscalded (past)


shaken baby syndrome

en-noun

shaken baby syndrome (countable and uncountable, plural shaken baby syndromes)

A trauma on the head that occurs when a child is violently shaken, creating a whiplash-type motion that causes acceleration-deceleration injuries, often without external signs of trauma.


abdominal evisceration

abdominal evisceration (plural abdominal eviscerations)

The presence of the viscera outside of the body, typically through a wound


neurotrauma

neurotrauma (countable and uncountable, plural neurotraumas)

One of the most promising neurotrauma protocols comes from an Emory University researcher, Donald Stein, whose work suggests that a dose of the hormone progesterone administered within 24 hours of a brain injury could have a profound protective effect.

2009 March 30, Michael Paul Mason, “Keeping Our Heads”, in New York Times:


brain damage

brain damage (usually uncountable, plural brain damages)

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see brain, damage.


traumatic brain injury

traumatic brain injury (plural traumatic brain injuries)

(medicine) A traumatic injury to the brain caused by an external force.


battered baby syndrome

shaken baby syndrome
shaken baby syndrome#English


powder burn

To anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart. A jiu jitsu trick and somewhat erratic marksmanship were all that had saved the President.

1944 April 17, “Mexico: At the Palacio Nacional”, in Time, retrieved 2014-05-13:

Most had head wounds and powder burns, indicating that they had been shot at close range.

1983 June 4, Lydia Chavez, “Salvador Photos Indicate Massacre”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-13:

Tom Chaney is a depraved man who kills for no good reason. . . . Chaney has a powder burn on his face.

2013 Oct. 8, grumpynerd, "Writer's Book Report: TRUE GRIT," Daily Kos (retrieved 13 May 2014)

A burn, ordinarily superficial and on someone's skin, resulting from proximity to an explosion of gunpowder, such as that associated with the discharge of a firearm.


degloving

/diːˈɡlʌvɪŋ/


crush syndrome

A medical condition characterized by major shock and renal failure after a crushing injury to skeletal muscle.


TBI

traumatic brain injury
traumatic brain injury#English

(pathology) Initialism of traumatic brain injury.


hip fracture

From hip + fracture, from being a fracture of the leg, located near, but below, the hip.

Coordinate term: pelvic fracture (fracture to the hip bone)

(medicine) A break to the upper quarter of the femur (the femoral head or the femoral neck), impairing the hip joint.


hangman's fracture

(colloquial) A fracture of both pedicles of the epistropheus.


compound fracture

compound fracture (plural compound fractures)

A broken bone communicating with a co-existing skin wound.


simple fracture

simple fracture (plural simple fractures)

(medicine) A fracture where the bone only is divided.


complicated fracture

complicated fracture (plural complicated fractures)

(medicine, pathology) A fracture where there is some other injury (e.g., a flesh wound not communicating with the fracture, a dislocation, or a rupture of a large blood vessel).


multitrauma

Relating to multiple traumas, as for example thoracic, abdominal, and extremity trauma all resulting from the same traumatic event.


gutter wound

From the shape in profile of such a wound, somewhat resembling that of a building's gutter.

(pathology) A traumatic wound oriented tangentially to the surface (of the skin or an internal organ), which creates a groove or furrow without passing beneath the surface.


open fracture

(pathology) A fracture of a bone where one or more bone fragments penetrate the skin, forming an open wound.


entrance wound

Most entrance wounds, no matter the range, are surrounded by a reddish, reddish-brown zone of abraded skin—the abrasion ring (Figure 4.16).

1998, Vincent J. M. Di Maio, Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 83:

(pathology, forensics) Synonym of entry wound


rink rash

Coordinate term: road rash

(roller derby, slang) Skin injury caused by abrasion against the floor of the rink.