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  2. Wound - Wikipedia

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    Incisions or incised wounds – caused by a clean, sharp-edged object such as a knife, razor, or glass splinter. [citation needed] Lacerations – irregular tear-like wounds caused by some blunt trauma. Lacerations and incisions may appear linear (regular) or stellate (irregular). The term laceration is commonly misused in reference to ...

  3. Incision - Wikipedia

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    A type of open wound caused by a clean, sharp-edged object such as a knife, razor, or glass splinter; Surgical incision, a cut made through the skin and soft tissue to facilitate an operation or procedure; River incision, in geomorphology; Incisions, by American deathcore band Oceano; Incision (band), a Dutch hard rock band

  4. Wound healing - Wikipedia

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    Timing is important to wound healing. Critically, the timing of wound re-epithelialization can decide the outcome of the healing. [11] If the epithelization of tissue over a denuded area is slow, a scar will form over many weeks, or months; [12] [13] If the epithelization of a wounded area is fast, the healing will result in regeneration.

  5. Open fracture - Wikipedia

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    Open fracture, wound > 1 cm but < 10 cm in length [14] without extensive soft-tissue damage, flaps, avulsions IIIA: Open fracture with adequate soft tissue coverage of a fractured bone despite extensive soft tissue laceration or flaps, or high-energy trauma (gunshot and farm injuries) regardless of the size of the wound [14] [15] IIIB

  6. Penetrating trauma - Wikipedia

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    Penetrating trauma is an open wound injury that occurs when an object pierces the skin and enters a tissue of the body, creating a deep but relatively narrow entry wound.In contrast, a blunt or non-penetrating trauma may have some deep damage, but the overlying skin is not necessarily broken and the wound is still closed to the outside environment.

  7. Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and ...

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    In 1998, The Wire included the album in their list of "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)". The staff called the album "[t]he key document in the development of the British underground, and the cornerstone for all subsequent outsider forays into 'electric experimental music'," further describing it as "[a] monstrous trawl through twilight sounds, where ...

  8. Surgical incision - Wikipedia

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    Chevron incision – This incision is a cut made on the abdomen below the rib cage. The cut starts under the mid-axillary line below the ribs on the right side of the abdomen and continues all the way across the abdomen to the opposite mid-axillary line thereby the whole width of the abdomen is cut to provide access to the liver.

  9. Stab wound - Wikipedia

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    Stab wounds occur four times more than gunshot wounds in the United Kingdom, but the mortality rate associated with stabbing has ranged from 0–4% as 85% of injuries sustained from stab wounds only affect subcutaneous tissue. [7] [9] [27] In Belgium, most assaults resulting in a stab wound occur to and by men and persons of ethnic minorities. [28]