gunshot wounds
Firearm-inflicted trauma sites
Gunshot wounds are injuries caused by bullets or other projectiles fired from guns.
The term appears most often in medical and forensic contexts: The victim died from multiple gunshot wounds.
Emergency physicians assess entry and exit wounds, while investigators use wound patterns to reconstruct shootings.
- penetratingPassing into or through
- grazingFeeding on pasture
- ballisticsProjectile motion science
- perforatingMaking holes through
- bullet holeProjectile's entry point
debridement · ricochet · hemorrhage · caliber · forensic pathology · drive by · fractures · suturing · tangential · powder burns · blood transfusion · stippling · gunshot residue · close range · point blank · amputations · muzzle velocity · internal bleeding
- injuriesbruise, fracture, sprain, fractures, concussion
- veteran healthPTSD, shell shock, combat fatigue, battle fatigue, combat trauma
- War Woundsshrapnel wounds, blast injury, blast injuries, amputation, amputations
- evidenceevidence, evidence bag, circumstantial evidence, proof, admissible
- fatal hazardsaccidents, drowning, falls, poisoning, overdose
- skeletal analysishuman remains, osteology, long bones, sex determination, bone age
mechanism of injury
gunshot woundsstab wounds
Cuts from pointed weapons
knife wounds · blunt trauma · burn injuries · poisoning · drowning