Difference between revisions of "Gunshot wounds"

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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.
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