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*Usually smaller than exit wounds. | *Usually smaller than exit wounds. | ||
**In skull the inner table defect is typically larger than outer table defect ("internal bevel"). | **In skull the inner table defect is typically larger than outer table defect ("internal bevel"). | ||
===Atypical entrance wounds=== | ===Atypical entrance wounds=== | ||
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**Bullet ricochets --hits other object before hitting target, gun defective -- bullet's long axis doesn't coincide with its velocity vector. | **Bullet ricochets --hits other object before hitting target, gun defective -- bullet's long axis doesn't coincide with its velocity vector. | ||
***Classically results in a "D-shaped" wound.<ref name=denton/> | ***Classically results in a "D-shaped" wound.<ref name=denton/> | ||
===Images=== | |||
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Image: Experimental gunshot entrance wound - dist to target 0 inch.jpg | Exp. GSW, ent. contact (WC) | |||
Image: Experimental gunshot entrance wound - dist to target 1 inch.jpg | Exp. GSW, ent. 1" (WC) | |||
Image: Experimental gunshot entrance wound - dist to target 3 inch.jpg | Exp. GSW, ent. 3" (WC) | |||
Image: Experimental gunshot entrance wound - dist to target 6 inch.jpg | Exp. GSW, ent. 6" (WC) | |||
Image: Experimental gunshot entrance wound - dist to target 25 inch.jpg | Exp. GSW, ent. 25" (WC) | |||
</gallery> | |||
<gallery> | |||
Image:Single_gunshot_abdomen.jpg | Entrance wound - abdomen. (WC) | |||
</gallery> | |||
==Exit wounds== | ==Exit wounds== | ||