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**Includes: smothering, [[choking]], positional asphyxia, [[drowning]]. | **Includes: smothering, [[choking]], positional asphyxia, [[drowning]]. | ||
=Blunt force trauma | =Blunt force injury= | ||
*[[AKA]] ''blunt force trauma''. | |||
==General== | ==General== | ||
* | Classification: | ||
*Contusions. | |||
*Laceration. | |||
*Acceleration/deceleration injury, e.g. [[diffuse axonal injury]]. | |||
Weapons: | |||
*Fist. | |||
*Foot. | |||
*Baseball bat... pretty much anything. | |||
*Beer bottles are common... and strong enought to fracture a skull. | *Beer bottles are common... and strong enought to fracture a skull. | ||
**Empty bottles have a higher fracture energy than full ones.<ref name=pmid19239964>{{cite journal |author=Bolliger SA, Ross S, Oesterhelweg L, Thali MJ, Kneubuehl BP |title=Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull? |journal=J Forensic Leg Med |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=138–42 |year=2009 |month=April |pmid=19239964 |doi=10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013 |url=}}</ref> | **Empty bottles have a higher fracture energy than full ones.<ref name=pmid19239964>{{cite journal |author=Bolliger SA, Ross S, Oesterhelweg L, Thali MJ, Kneubuehl BP |title=Are full or empty beer bottles sturdier and does their fracture-threshold suffice to break the human skull? |journal=J Forensic Leg Med |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=138–42 |year=2009 |month=April |pmid=19239964 |doi=10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013 |url=}}</ref> | ||