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entry wound

n. (context medicine forensics English) A wound made by a bullet or other object as it enters the body, as contrasted with exit wound.

Usage examples of "entry wound".

The entry wound was invisible, but two pieces of the commando's spine thrust from the gaping exit wound at forty-five-degree angles.

Apart from the entry wound and the tube in his throat, the Shark looked as if he might be sleeping.

If it had been more than one person it would have been a crooked entry wound.

The small entry wound high in his chest oozed blood each time he took a breath.

Then, taking up a position which would allow the heat and bloody steam to escape and disperse along the entry wound rather than stewing the Cutter in his own body fluids, Hellishomar attacked the foul thing with his burner turned up to full intensity.

Yet I found just an entry wound over the sternum, the undamaged bone directly under the woundand then the bullet lodged inside behind the sternum, with no indication how it had gotten from one place to the other.

Furthermore, the entry wound of the second slug was over the base of the fourth rib, right side, but that rib was undamaged as well.

The slug exited up and to the right from the entry wound, drawing blood, tissue and bone after it.

The shirt was torn around a large bullet entry wound in her right shoulder.

He flopped on the ground, blood gouting from the entry wound, then from somewhere he found the strength to get to his knees.

He held one hand over the entry wound only an inch above the still-bandaged hole in his hip where he'd taken a bullet at Orion Lake.

Even he missed the occasional shot, but at one point there had been fifty carcasses floating in view, more than two-thirds of them with an 11-millimeter entry wound.