injury vs penetrating injury

penetrating injury vs injury

injury and penetrating injury both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
injury	Yes	No	No	No
penetrating injury	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

Other hyponyms of injury 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 trauma, pinch, rupture, bite, insect bite, sting, strain, whiplash, whiplash injury, wale, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

injury (noun)	penetrating injury (noun)
wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted	injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body
an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage
an accident that results in physical damage or hurt
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

Difference between injury and penetrating injury

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