harm vs penetrating trauma

penetrating trauma vs harm

harm and penetrating trauma both are nouns.

harm is a verb but penetrating trauma is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
harm	Yes	No	Yes	No
penetrating trauma	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, penetrating trauma is a hyponym of harm; that is, penetrating trauma is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than harm:

harm: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
penetrating trauma: injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body

Other hyponyms of harm include brain damage, birth trauma, blast trauma, bleeding, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, blunt trauma, bruise, contusion, bump, burn, dislocation, electric shock, break, fracture, cryopathy, frostbite, intravasation, penetrating injury, pinch, rupture, bite, insect bite, sting, strain, whiplash, whiplash injury, wale, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

harm (noun)	penetrating trauma (noun)
the act of damaging something or someone	injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body
the occurrence of a change for the worse
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

harm (verb)	penetrating trauma (verb)
cause or do harm to

Difference between harm and penetrating trauma

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