blunt force
Raw physical trauma
Blunt force is impact from an object without a sharp edge or point—a bat, fist, or fall rather than a blade or bullet.
The term appears most often in medical and legal contexts describing injuries: The victim died from blunt force trauma to the head.
It contrasts with penetrating or cutting injuries.
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- head traumaInjury to the skull
- impactForceful contact or consequence
- bludgeonHeavy blunt weapon
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
crush · blow · hammer · club · baseball bat · lead pipe · bat · skull · fracture · bruise · contusion · internal bleeding · smash · crack · wound · weapon · heavy · swing
- forensicsDNA, DNA analysis, fingerprints, forensics, criminalistics
- bodily harmhurt, injure, wound, harm, injuries
- Crime Scenecrime scene, evidence marker, evidence bag, evidence bags, crime tape
- homicidehomicide, murder rate, murder rates, homicide rate, homicide rates
- assaultphysical assault, aggravated assault, simple assault, domestic assault, armed assault
- physicsphysics, momentum, atom, acceleration, gravity
mechanism of physical injury
blunt forcestab wound
Injury from piercing
puncture wound · laceration · stabbing · impalement · slashing
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