war wounds
Battle-inflicted bodily harm
War wounds are injuries sustained in military combat—gunshots, shrapnel damage, burns, lost limbs.
The term extends to psychological trauma from warfare: He still carries war wounds from his time in Vietnam.
Figuratively, war wounds are scars from any prolonged struggle or conflict: The divorce left them both with war wounds.
- bandagesStrips covering wounds
- field hospitalTemporary military medical facility
- shell shockWar-induced psychological trauma
- dissociationMental separation from surroundings
- PTSDChronic reaction to horrific events
burns · amputations · missing limb · phantom pain · walking wounded · battlefield medicine · combat medicine · moral injury · triage · shrapnel · concussions · trauma care · nerve damage · intergenerational trauma · depression · wound dressing · hypervigilance · fractures
- emergency surgeryemergency surgery, trauma care, surgical teams, surgical tools, resuscitation
- military medicinecombat medics, combat medic, field hospitals, army surgeon, combat medicine
- veteran benefitsVA benefits, VA loans, veteran benefits, GI Bill, disability benefits
- veteran healthPTSD, shell shock, combat fatigue, battle fatigue, combat trauma
- veteran rehabVA hospital, VA hospitals, veterans hospital, veterans affairs, veteran affairs
- war medicinecombat medic, combat medics, field hospital, field hospitals, field surgery
healing vs. harm
war woundshealing
Restoration of health
recovery · scars · battle scars · convalescence · rehabilitation