flesh wound
noun
: an injury involving penetration of the body musculature without damage to bones or internal organs
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Some bullfighters run in front of the bulls to stick these in the beast’s flanks, leaving bloody but shallow flesh wounds.
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Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
Knight recovered from a messy but minor flesh wound.
—John L. Smith, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
The drug is known for leaving deep flesh wounds that can sometimes lead to amputations after ulcers appear at the point of injection or elsewhere on the body.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2023
Seven Americans were injured with flesh wounds, the Pentagon said.
—Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
Its causal relationship to the flesh wounds that can result from its use is not understood.
—Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
The seven Americans who sustained flesh wounds were in stable condition, although one was wounded seriously enough to require evacuation to Landstuhl, according to Ryder.
—Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
Its move was a flesh wound for the PBMs.
—David Wainer, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
Da made it through his flesh wound.
—Bono, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
Knight recovered from a messy but minor flesh wound.
—John L. Smith, Rolling Stone, 25 Jan. 2024
The drug is known for leaving deep flesh wounds that can sometimes lead to amputations after ulcers appear at the point of injection or elsewhere on the body.
—Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2023
Seven Americans were injured with flesh wounds, the Pentagon said.
—Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
Its causal relationship to the flesh wounds that can result from its use is not understood.
—Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
The seven Americans who sustained flesh wounds were in stable condition, although one was wounded seriously enough to require evacuation to Landstuhl, according to Ryder.
—Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2023
Its move was a flesh wound for the PBMs.
—David Wainer, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
Da made it through his flesh wound.
—Bono, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
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