harm vs whiplash injury

whiplash injury vs harm

harm and whiplash injury both are nouns.

harm is a verb but whiplash injury is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
harm	Yes	No	Yes	No
whiplash injury	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, whiplash injury is a hyponym of harm; that is, whiplash injury 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
whiplash injury: an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)

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, penetrating trauma, pinch, rupture, bite, insect bite, sting, strain, whiplash, wale, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

harm (noun)	whiplash injury (noun)
the act of damaging something or someone	an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident)
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)	whiplash injury (verb)
cause or do harm to

Difference between harm and whiplash injury

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