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*Combination entrance/exit wounds -- result from a bullet grazing the victim. | *Combination entrance/exit wounds -- result from a bullet grazing the victim. | ||
*Attached skin tags can give directionality;<ref name=pmid6699600>{{Cite journal | last1 = Dixon | first1 = DS. | title = Determination of direction of fire from graze gunshot wounds of internal organs. | journal = J Forensic Sci | volume = 29 | issue = 1 | pages = 331-5 | month = Jan | year = 1984 | doi = | PMID = 6699600 }}</ref> they are classically found at the aspect of the wound distant from the projectile's origin. | *Attached skin tags can give directionality;<ref name=pmid6699600>{{Cite journal | last1 = Dixon | first1 = DS. | title = Determination of direction of fire from graze gunshot wounds of internal organs. | journal = J Forensic Sci | volume = 29 | issue = 1 | pages = 331-5 | month = Jan | year = 1984 | doi = | PMID = 6699600 }}</ref> they are classically found at the aspect of the wound distant from the projectile's origin. | ||
**The University of Utah describes it as:<ref>URL: [http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNINJ.html http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNINJ.html]. Accessed on: 6 March 2012.</ref> | |||
::''Characteristically, the side of the <nowiki>[skin]</nowiki> tag demonstrating a laceration is the side of the projection toward the weapon.'' | |||
==Distance of shooter== | ==Distance of shooter== | ||