Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Stab wound

Index Stab wound

A stab wound is a specific form of penetrating trauma to the skin that results from a knife or a similar pointed object that is "deeper than it is wide". [1]

106 relations: Abdomen, Albania, American Journal of Nursing, Andorra, Armenia, Artery, Assault, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belize, Blade, Bleeding, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Cardiac surgery, Chile, China, Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, Colombia, Complete blood count, Contrast agent, Costa Rica, Croatia, CT scan, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Damage control surgery, Death, Diagnostic peritoneal lavage, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Emergency medicine, England, Finland, Focused assessment with sonography for trauma, Grenada, Gun, Gunshot wound, Guy de Chauliac, Guyana, Heart, Hematocrit, Hippocrates, Homeostasis, Homicide, Honduras, Hospital, ..., Human skin, Hungary, Hypovolemia, Iceland, Injury (journal), Intravenous therapy, Italy, Jamaica, Jereboam O. Beauchamp, Knife, Laparotomy, Liver function tests, Ludwig Rehn, Luxembourg, Malta, Minority group, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mortality rate, Nail gun, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Organ dysfunction, Organ system, Panama, Penetrating trauma, Republic of Macedonia, Respiratory tract, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Scotland, Self-inflicted wound, Serbia, Shock (circulatory), Slovenia, Solomon P. Sharp, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Stabbing, Stingray injury, Subcutaneous tissue, Suicide, Surgeon, Surgery, Suspect, Switzerland, The Bahamas, Tourniquet, Trauma center, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, Violence, Wales, Weapon, Wound. Expand index (56 more) »

Abdomen

The abdomen (less formally called the belly, stomach, tummy or midriff) constitutes the part of the body between the thorax (chest) and pelvis, in humans and in other vertebrates.

New!!: Stab wound and Abdomen · See more »

Albania

Albania (Shqipëri/Shqipëria; Shqipni/Shqipnia or Shqypni/Shqypnia), officially the Republic of Albania (Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe.

New!!: Stab wound and Albania · See more »

American Journal of Nursing

American Journal of Nursing is a monthly peer reviewed nursing journal.

New!!: Stab wound and American Journal of Nursing · See more »

Andorra

Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra (Principat d'Andorra), also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra (Principat de les Valls d'Andorra), is a sovereign landlocked microstate on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees, bordered by France in the north and Spain in the south.

New!!: Stab wound and Andorra · See more »

Armenia

Armenia (translit), officially the Republic of Armenia (translit), is a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia.

New!!: Stab wound and Armenia · See more »

Artery

An artery (plural arteries) is a blood vessel that takes blood away from the heart to all parts of the body (tissues, lungs, etc).

New!!: Stab wound and Artery · See more »

Assault

An assault is the act of inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person or, in some specific legal definitions, a threat or attempt to commit such an action.

New!!: Stab wound and Assault · See more »

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

New!!: Stab wound and Australia · See more »

Austria

Austria (Österreich), officially the Republic of Austria (Republik Österreich), is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.8 million people in Central Europe.

New!!: Stab wound and Austria · See more »

Azerbaijan

No description.

New!!: Stab wound and Azerbaijan · See more »

Belize

Belize, formerly British Honduras, is an independent Commonwealth realm on the eastern coast of Central America.

New!!: Stab wound and Belize · See more »

Blade

A blade is the portion of a tool, weapon, or machine with an edge that is designed to puncture, chop, slice or scrape surfaces or materials.

New!!: Stab wound and Blade · See more »

Bleeding

Bleeding, also known as hemorrhaging or haemorrhaging, is blood escaping from the circulatory system.

New!!: Stab wound and Bleeding · See more »

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina (or; abbreviated B&H; Bosnian and Serbian: Bosna i Hercegovina (BiH) / Боснa и Херцеговина (БиХ), Croatian: Bosna i Hercegovina (BiH)), sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina, and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeastern Europe located on the Balkan Peninsula.

New!!: Stab wound and Bosnia and Herzegovina · See more »

Bulgaria

Bulgaria (България, tr.), officially the Republic of Bulgaria (Република България, tr.), is a country in southeastern Europe.

New!!: Stab wound and Bulgaria · See more »

Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

New!!: Stab wound and Canada · See more »

Cardiac surgery

Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons.

New!!: Stab wound and Cardiac surgery · See more »

Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

New!!: Stab wound and Chile · See more »

China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

New!!: Stab wound and China · See more »

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research is a peer-reviewed medical journal.

New!!: Stab wound and Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research · See more »

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.

New!!: Stab wound and Colombia · See more »

Complete blood count

A complete blood count (CBC), also known as a complete blood cell count, full blood count (FBC), or full blood exam (FBE), is a blood panel requested by a doctor or other medical professional that gives information about the cells in a patient's blood, such as the cell count for each cell type and the concentrations of various proteins and minerals.

New!!: Stab wound and Complete blood count · See more »

Contrast agent

A contrast agent (or contrast medium) is a substance used to increase the contrast of structures or fluids within the body in medical imaging.

New!!: Stab wound and Contrast agent · See more »

Costa Rica

Costa Rica ("Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (República de Costa Rica), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island.

New!!: Stab wound and Costa Rica · See more »

Croatia

Croatia (Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea.

New!!: Stab wound and Croatia · See more »

CT scan

A CT scan, also known as computed tomography scan, makes use of computer-processed combinations of many X-ray measurements taken from different angles to produce cross-sectional (tomographic) images (virtual "slices") of specific areas of a scanned object, allowing the user to see inside the object without cutting.

New!!: Stab wound and CT scan · See more »

Cyprus

Cyprus (Κύπρος; Kıbrıs), officially the Republic of Cyprus (Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία; Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti), is an island country in the Eastern Mediterranean and the third largest and third most populous island in the Mediterranean.

New!!: Stab wound and Cyprus · See more »

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

New!!: Stab wound and Czech Republic · See more »

Damage control surgery

Damage control surgery (DCS) is a technique of surgery used to care for critically ill patients.

New!!: Stab wound and Damage control surgery · See more »

Death

Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.

New!!: Stab wound and Death · See more »

Diagnostic peritoneal lavage

Diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) or diagnostic peritoneal aspiration (DPA) is a surgical diagnostic procedure to determine if there is free floating fluid (most often blood) in the abdominal cavity.

New!!: Stab wound and Diagnostic peritoneal lavage · See more »

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.

New!!: Stab wound and Dominican Republic · See more »

Egypt

Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.

New!!: Stab wound and Egypt · See more »

El Salvador

El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador (República de El Salvador, literally "Republic of The Savior"), is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America.

New!!: Stab wound and El Salvador · See more »

Emergency medicine

Emergency medicine, also known as accident and emergency medicine, is the medical specialty concerned with caring for undifferentiated, unscheduled patients with illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention.

New!!: Stab wound and Emergency medicine · See more »

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

New!!: Stab wound and England · See more »

Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

New!!: Stab wound and Finland · See more »

Focused assessment with sonography for trauma

Focused assessment with sonography for trauma (commonly abbreviated as FAST) is a rapid bedside ultrasound examination performed by surgeons, emergency physicians and certain paramedics as a screening test for blood around the heart (pericardial effusion) or abdominal organs (hemoperitoneum) after trauma.

New!!: Stab wound and Focused assessment with sonography for trauma · See more »

Grenada

Grenada is a sovereign state in the southeastern Caribbean Sea consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain.

New!!: Stab wound and Grenada · See more »

Gun

A gun is a tubular ranged weapon typically designed to pneumatically discharge projectiles that are solid (most guns) but can also be liquid (as in water guns/cannons and projected water disruptors) or even charged particles (as in a plasma gun) and may be free-flying (as with bullets and artillery shells) or tethered (as with Taser guns, spearguns and harpoon guns).

New!!: Stab wound and Gun · See more »

Gunshot wound

A gunshot wound (GSW), also known as ballistic trauma, is a form of physical trauma sustained from the discharge of arms or munitions.

New!!: Stab wound and Gunshot wound · See more »

Guy de Chauliac

Guy de Chauliac, also called Guido or Guigo de Cauliaco (c. 1300 – 25 July 1368), was a French physician and surgeon who wrote a lengthy and influential treatise on surgery in Latin, titled Chirurgia Magna.

New!!: Stab wound and Guy de Chauliac · See more »

Guyana

Guyana (pronounced or), officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a sovereign state on the northern mainland of South America.

New!!: Stab wound and Guyana · See more »

Heart

The heart is a muscular organ in most animals, which pumps blood through the blood vessels of the circulatory system.

New!!: Stab wound and Heart · See more »

Hematocrit

The hematocrit (Ht or HCT), also known by several other names, is the volume percentage (vol%) of red blood cells in blood.

New!!: Stab wound and Hematocrit · See more »

Hippocrates

Hippocrates of Kos (Hippokrátēs ho Kṓos), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician of the Age of Pericles (Classical Greece), and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.

New!!: Stab wound and Hippocrates · See more »

Homeostasis

Homeostasis is the tendency of organisms to auto-regulate and maintain their internal environment in a stable state.

New!!: Stab wound and Homeostasis · See more »

Homicide

Homicide is the act of one human killing another.

New!!: Stab wound and Homicide · See more »

Honduras

Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America.

New!!: Stab wound and Honduras · See more »

Hospital

A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized medical and nursing staff and medical equipment.

New!!: Stab wound and Hospital · See more »

Human skin

The human skin is the outer covering of the body.

New!!: Stab wound and Human skin · See more »

Hungary

Hungary (Magyarország) is a country in Central Europe that covers an area of in the Carpathian Basin, bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Austria to the northwest, Romania to the east, Serbia to the south, Croatia to the southwest, and Slovenia to the west.

New!!: Stab wound and Hungary · See more »

Hypovolemia

Hypovolemia is a state of decreased blood volume; more specifically, decrease in volume of blood plasma.

New!!: Stab wound and Hypovolemia · See more »

Iceland

Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.

New!!: Stab wound and Iceland · See more »

Injury (journal)

Injury is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering trauma care.

New!!: Stab wound and Injury (journal) · See more »

Intravenous therapy

Intravenous therapy (IV) is a therapy that delivers liquid substances directly into a vein (intra- + ven- + -ous).

New!!: Stab wound and Intravenous therapy · See more »

Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

New!!: Stab wound and Italy · See more »

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

New!!: Stab wound and Jamaica · See more »

Jereboam O. Beauchamp

Jereboam Orville Beauchamp (September 6, 1802 – July 7, 1826) was an American lawyer who murdered the Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp; the crime is known as the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy.

New!!: Stab wound and Jereboam O. Beauchamp · See more »

Knife

A knife (plural knives) is a tool with a cutting edge or blade, hand-held or otherwise, with most having a handle.

New!!: Stab wound and Knife · See more »

Laparotomy

A laparotomy is a surgical procedure involving a large incision through the abdominal wall to gain access into the abdominal cavity.

New!!: Stab wound and Laparotomy · See more »

Liver function tests

Liver function tests (LFTs or LFs) are groups of blood tests that give information about the state of a patient's liver.

New!!: Stab wound and Liver function tests · See more »

Ludwig Rehn

Ludwig Wilhelm Carl Rehn (April 13, 1849, Bad Sooden-Allendorf – May 29, 1930) was a German surgeon.

New!!: Stab wound and Ludwig Rehn · See more »

Luxembourg

Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxembourg, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in western Europe.

New!!: Stab wound and Luxembourg · See more »

Malta

Malta, officially known as the Republic of Malta (Repubblika ta' Malta), is a Southern European island country consisting of an archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea.

New!!: Stab wound and Malta · See more »

Minority group

A minority group refers to a category of people differentiated from the social majority, those who hold on to major positions of social power in a society.

New!!: Stab wound and Minority group · See more »

Mongolia

Mongolia (Monggol Ulus in Mongolian; in Mongolian Cyrillic) is a landlocked unitary sovereign state in East Asia.

New!!: Stab wound and Mongolia · See more »

Montenegro

Montenegro (Montenegrin: Црна Гора / Crna Gora, meaning "Black Mountain") is a sovereign state in Southeastern Europe.

New!!: Stab wound and Montenegro · See more »

Mortality rate

Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time.

New!!: Stab wound and Mortality rate · See more »

Nail gun

A nail gun, nailgun or nailer is a type of tool used to drive nails into wood or some other kind of material.

New!!: Stab wound and Nail gun · See more »

New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

New!!: Stab wound and New Zealand · See more »

Nicaragua

Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the largest country in the Central American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

New!!: Stab wound and Nicaragua · See more »

Organ dysfunction

Organ dysfunction is a condition where an organ does not perform its expected function.

New!!: Stab wound and Organ dysfunction · See more »

Organ system

In biology, an organ system is a group of organs that work together to perform one or more functions.

New!!: Stab wound and Organ system · See more »

Panama

Panama (Panamá), officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá), is a country in Central America, bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south.

New!!: Stab wound and Panama · See more »

Penetrating trauma

Penetrating trauma is an injury that occurs when an object pierces the skin and enters a tissue of the body, creating an open wound.

New!!: Stab wound and Penetrating trauma · See more »

Republic of Macedonia

Macedonia (translit), officially the Republic of Macedonia, is a country in the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

New!!: Stab wound and Republic of Macedonia · See more »

Respiratory tract

In humans, the respiratory tract is the part of the anatomy of the respiratory system involved with the process of respiration.

New!!: Stab wound and Respiratory tract · See more »

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a sovereign state in the Lesser Antilles island arc, in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lies in the West Indies at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.

New!!: Stab wound and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · See more »

Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

New!!: Stab wound and Scotland · See more »

Self-inflicted wound

A self-inflicted wound (SIW), is the act of harming oneself where there are no underlying psychological problems related to the self-injury, but where the injurer wanted to take advantage of being injured.

New!!: Stab wound and Self-inflicted wound · See more »

Serbia

Serbia (Србија / Srbija),Pannonian Rusyn: Сербия; Szerbia; Albanian and Romanian: Serbia; Slovak and Czech: Srbsko,; Сърбия.

New!!: Stab wound and Serbia · See more »

Shock (circulatory)

Shock is the state of low blood perfusion to tissues resulting in cellular injury and inadequate tissue function.

New!!: Stab wound and Shock (circulatory) · See more »

Slovenia

Slovenia (Slovenija), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene:, abbr.: RS), is a country in southern Central Europe, located at the crossroads of main European cultural and trade routes.

New!!: Stab wound and Slovenia · See more »

Solomon P. Sharp

Solomon Porcius Sharp (August 22, 1787 – November 7, 1825) was an American attorney and politician, serving as attorney general of Kentucky and a member of the United States Congress and the Kentucky General Assembly.

New!!: Stab wound and Solomon P. Sharp · See more »

South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

New!!: Stab wound and South Africa · See more »

South Sudan

South Sudan, officially known as the Republic of South Sudan, is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa.

New!!: Stab wound and South Sudan · See more »

Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

New!!: Stab wound and Spain · See more »

Stabbing

A stabbing is penetration with a sharp or pointed object at close range.

New!!: Stab wound and Stabbing · See more »

Stingray injury

Stingray injuries are caused by the venomous tail spines, stingers or dermal denticles of rays in the order Myliobatiformes, most significantly those belonging to the families Dasyatidae, Urotrygonidae, Urolophidae, and Potamotrygonidae.

New!!: Stab wound and Stingray injury · See more »

Subcutaneous tissue

The subcutaneous tissue, also called the hypodermis, hypoderm, subcutis, or superficial fascia, is the lowermost layer of the integumentary system in vertebrates.

New!!: Stab wound and Subcutaneous tissue · See more »

Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

New!!: Stab wound and Suicide · See more »

Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a physician who performs surgical operations.

New!!: Stab wound and Surgeon · See more »

Surgery

Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via chirurgiae, meaning "hand work") is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured areas.

New!!: Stab wound and Surgery · See more »

Suspect

In law enforcement jargon, a suspect is a known person accused or suspected of committing a crime.

New!!: Stab wound and Suspect · See more »

Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

New!!: Stab wound and Switzerland · See more »

The Bahamas

The Bahamas, known officially as the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an archipelagic state within the Lucayan Archipelago.

New!!: Stab wound and The Bahamas · See more »

Tourniquet

A tourniquet can be defined as a constricting or compressing device used to control arterial and venous blood flow to a portion of an extremity for a period of time.

New!!: Stab wound and Tourniquet · See more »

Trauma center

A trauma center (or trauma centre) is a hospital equipped and staffed to provide care for patients suffering from major traumatic injuries such as falls, motor vehicle collisions, or gunshot wounds.

New!!: Stab wound and Trauma center · See more »

Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is a twin island sovereign state that is the southernmost nation of the West Indies in the Caribbean.

New!!: Stab wound and Trinidad and Tobago · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: Stab wound and United States · See more »

Uruguay

Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a sovereign state in the southeastern region of South America.

New!!: Stab wound and Uruguay · See more »

Violence

Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation," although the group acknowledges that the inclusion of "the use of power" in its definition expands on the conventional understanding of the word.

New!!: Stab wound and Violence · See more »

Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

New!!: Stab wound and Wales · See more »

Weapon

A weapon, arm or armament is any device used with intent to inflict damage or harm.

New!!: Stab wound and Weapon · See more »

Wound

A wound is a type of injury which happens relatively quickly in which skin is torn, cut, or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound).

New!!: Stab wound and Wound · See more »

Redirects here:

Knife wound, Stab wounds.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab_wound

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »