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Dwayne from Lexington, Ky. is reading Strangers in the Land by Stant Litore. May 18, 2012 - 4:07pm

For the most part I know which wound goes with which injury, but is there a term from a sharp object going under the flesh and coming back out? Besides 'pierce'.I don't think it counts as an impale unless it goes strait through the center mass, and I'm meaning more under the left pectoral muscle.

Serious question, thinking about doing a work based on this.

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Constant Reader from Central OR is reading Nothing but fucking Shakespeare, for the rest of my life May 18, 2012 - 4:33pm

I've always been partial to the term 'flail chest' because the name of the wound can be caused by a weapon of the same name. A flail is a badass weapon. And doesn't chest flail just sound do hopeless and desperate?

 

In answer to your question, googling it gave me avulsion wounds (http://www.medstudentlc.com/page.php?id=65), or maybe puncture wound? Hell if I know; I'm a writer Jim, not a damn doctor!

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Fylh from from from is reading is from is reading is reading is reading reading is reading May 18, 2012 - 4:41pm

"Fucking painful business."

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bryanhowie from FW, ID is reading Comic books and motorcycle riding guides May 18, 2012 - 5:39pm

I would describe it as 'threading through the flesh' or something else that makes it look like a needle stitching together skin.  

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averydoll from Kentucky is reading Lisey's Story by Stephen King May 18, 2012 - 5:58pm

Perhaps hooking through the skin? 

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drea from Rural Alberta, Canada is reading way too much into this conversation May 18, 2012 - 6:01pm

Shank, if it is a raw blade and street lingo. 

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Profunda Saint-... from Calgary, AB is reading Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series May 18, 2012 - 6:07pm

Skewer?

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Dwayne from Lexington, Ky. is reading Strangers in the Land by Stant Litore. May 18, 2012 - 7:47pm

It was a bit of industrail plastic.

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ReneeAPickup from Joshua Tree, CA is reading The Sound of Lonliness May 18, 2012 - 9:12pm

I think the official term is puncture wound. I've had a few in my day.

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Nick Wilczynski from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin May 18, 2012 - 10:59pm

It's totally a puncture wound. They give pretty cool scars. Weird little circles.

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Dr. Guillotine from Phoenix, AZ is reading Kurt Vonnegut Slaughter House-Five May 19, 2012 - 12:29am

Submerge/emerge?

 

I like the sensation your going for.  Gives me the heebie-jeebies.

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Dwayne from Lexington, Ky. is reading Strangers in the Land by Stant Litore. May 19, 2012 - 11:02pm

I had a real one, and I'm going to base a story on it. Mine dind't give me a circle, it's a little bump.

 

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Nick Wilczynski from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin May 19, 2012 - 11:05pm

How long have you had it?

I got mine from dog teeth, the scars went through this long process of change but what I have now is a couple of little purple-looking circles where the canines hit.

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Dwayne from Lexington, Ky. is reading Strangers in the Land by Stant Litore. May 19, 2012 - 11:11pm

6 years or so. This was one big one 3 or 4 inches so fairly different.

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Nick Wilczynski from Greensboro, NC is reading A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin May 19, 2012 - 11:17pm

I see, yeah, that's pretty intense.

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Dwayne from Lexington, Ky. is reading Strangers in the Land by Stant Litore. May 20, 2012 - 5:53am

Painful. The word you are looking for is painful.

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Jose F. Diaz from East Coast is reading short novels by various authors that change so much it isn't worth posting here. May 20, 2012 - 8:59am

We used to have an acronym we used in some of my medical training.

DCAP BTLS

Deformities
Contusions
Abrasions
Punctures/penetrations
Burns
Tenderness
Lacerations
Swelling

An arm or hand can be impaled just as a chest cavity can. It would be impaled if it is still in. Punctured when talking about something being penetrated like the skin, heart, or spleen. Penetration is the actual act. A knife penetrated the skin puncturing the heart.

I believe impale would leave the person or object immobile.