blunt trauma

1. 1.

   injury incurred when the human body hits or is hit by a large outside object (as a car)

   Broaderinjury

Questions about blunt trauma

What does blunt trauma mean?

blunt trauma means "injury incurred when the human body hits or is hit by a large outside object (as a car)".

Is blunt trauma a common word?

blunt trauma is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.