BLUNT TRAUMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blunt trauma mean? 

• BLUNT TRAUMA (noun)
  The noun BLUNT TRAUMA has 1 sense:

1. injury incurred when the human body hits or is hit by a large outside object (as a car)

  Familiarity information: BLUNT TRAUMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLUNT TRAUMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Injury incurred when the human body hits or is hit by a large outside object (as a car)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("blunt trauma" is a kind of...):

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

 Context examples 

One of the signatures of damaged cells in cancer or blunt trauma is a change in the pattern of these microtubule markers.

(Scientists unravel the mystery of the tubulin code, NIH)

It usually follows blunt trauma and bleeding in the deep soft tissues.

(Myositis Ossificans, NCI Thesaurus)

Less common causes include injuries from penetrating or blunt trauma or injury to the esophagus during an operation on another organ, mechanical problem such as violent retching or vomiting; ingestion of a foreign body or caustic agents.

(Esophageal Perforation, NCI Thesaurus)