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*Circular/round defect --especially if the projectile strikes at a right angle to the surface. | *Circular/round defect --especially if the projectile strikes at a right angle to the surface. | ||
**If the projectile strikes at an angle the injury will be elliptical and the long axis of the ellipse will lie approximately in the plane the bullet traveled. | **If the projectile strikes at an angle the injury will be elliptical and the long axis of the ellipse will lie approximately in the plane the bullet traveled. | ||
*An abrasion, or scraping, --concentric or eccentric-- usually surrounds a deep wound (key feature -- used to differentiate from exit wounds). | *An [[abrasion]], or scraping, --concentric or eccentric-- usually surrounds a deep wound (key feature -- used to differentiate from exit wounds). | ||
**Eccentric abrasion suggest directionality. | **Eccentric abrasion suggest directionality. | ||
*Usually smaller than exit wounds. | *Usually smaller than exit wounds. | ||