HyperDic: penetrating_injury

English > 1 sense of the expression *penetrating injury*:
NOUN	state	penetrating injury, penetrating trauma	injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body

English > *penetrating injury*: 1 sense > noun 1, state
Meaning	Injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body.
Synonym	penetrating trauma
Broader	injury, hurt, harm, trauma	Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Spanish	lesión penetrante