penetrating injury

1. 1.

   injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body

   Synonymspenetrating trauma

   Broaderinjury

Questions about penetrating injury

What does penetrating injury mean?

penetrating injury means "injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body".

What is another word for penetrating injury?

Close synonyms include penetrating trauma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is penetrating injury a common word?

penetrating injury 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.