trauma vs penetrating injury

penetrating injury vs trauma

trauma and penetrating injury both are nouns.

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

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

trauma: 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 trauma 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.

trauma (noun)	penetrating injury (noun)
an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects	injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

Difference between trauma and penetrating injury

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