A wound in medicine refers to a particular type of injury, characterised by the traumatic disruption of one or more external or internal tissues of the body, caused by external agents of various kinds acting in different ways

Depending on the pathway and depth, wounds can be distinguished into superficial wounds (when they affect only the skin and subcutaneous layer) or deep, penetrating and internal wounds.

According to the degree of contamination of the wound, the latter can be ‘clean’ or ‘contaminated’.

Finally, depending on the mechanism that caused it, a wound may be a cut, a puncture wound or a wound of another type (gunshot, laceration, etc.).

Both an excoriation and an abrasion are a specific type of wound characterised by superficial injury to the skin or mucous membrane, caused by a trauma of various kinds that strikes the surface of the body with the difference that

• excoriation results in the escape of blood;
• abrasion does NOT result in the escape of blood.

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