WordNet
n. injury incurred when the human body hits or is hit by a large outside object (as a car)
Wikipedia
Blunt trauma, blunt injury, non-penetrating trauma or blunt force trauma refers to physical trauma to a body part, either by impact, injury or physical attack. The latter is usually referred to as blunt force trauma. The term refers to the initial trauma, from which develops more specific types such as contusions, abrasions, lacerations, and/or bone fractures. Blunt trauma is contrasted with penetrating trauma, in which an object such as a bullet enters the body.
Usage examples of "blunt trauma".
Nothing straightforward: blunt trauma, car versus pedestrian, gunshots.
No blunt trauma, no gunshots, no stab wounds, no poison, no strangulation.
It was the battering she'd taken, she told herself: heat, lack of sleep, blunt trauma, contusions, severed fingers, dead Cubans and live heroes.
The molded polycarbonate breastplate had rounded pectorals designed to turn even high-velocity bullets, but the impact still rocked him back on his heels, and the blunt trauma momentarily stunned him.
Dead by blunt trauma (a club), or dead by penetrating trauma (knife or gun).
The first version of the electronic armor was designed to protect the wearer from bullets or bombs-fast-moving blunt trauma or shock-but did nothing to enhance strength.
He pointed and snap-shot just as he'd been taught on the training range, pointing for the head of the nearest beast, hoping for a stun, blunt trauma or perhaps something better.
He had forty men arrayed behind him, all of them armed with a mixture of automatic rifles, gas guns, and other arms that fired 'rubber bullets,' more accurately called missiles, made of ductile plastic that could knock a grown man down, and if the marksman were very careful, stop a heart from blunt trauma.
The outer Monocrys sheathing went opaque when exposed to radiation, and the Nomex and Spectra layers provided protection against blunt trauma.
Another layer of piezoelectrically-active fibers was able to stiffen the suit against detected impacts, distributing the force across the entire body of the wearer instead of permitting blunt trauma to be done to one area.