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Identify the injury (image showing a wound on the forehead with irregular margins but sharp-looking edges due to sheering forces).
Identify the injury (image showing a wound on the forehead with irregular margins but sharp-looking edges due to sheering forces).
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A wound over a bony surface (forehead) caused by blunt sheering force can mimic a sharp-edged incision -- identify this specific forensic term.
Updated On: Jun 23, 2026
- Incised looking laceration
- Laceration
- Laceration looking incision
- Incision
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Solution and Explanation
Wound classification in forensic medicine:
$\text{Incision}$: Sharp weapon; clean edges; no tissue bridges; no marginal contusion.
$\text{Laceration}$: Blunt weapon; irregular edges; tissue bridges present; contused margins.
$\text{Incised-looking laceration}$: A subtype of laceration seen over bone-covered areas (forehead, shin) where the blunt sheering force stretches and tears the skin producing edges that appear sharp and clean, mimicking an incised wound. On close examination, irregularity, tissue bridges and contused margins identify it as a laceration.
Why forehead? The thin skin over the frontal bone offers little subcutaneous padding; blunt trauma causes the skin to split sharply against the bone via a shearing mechanism.
Medico-legal importance: Misidentifying as an incision could wrongly implicate a sharp weapon; careful examination prevents this error.
\[\boxed{\text{Incised looking laceration}}\]
$\text{Incision}$: Sharp weapon; clean edges; no tissue bridges; no marginal contusion.
$\text{Laceration}$: Blunt weapon; irregular edges; tissue bridges present; contused margins.
$\text{Incised-looking laceration}$: A subtype of laceration seen over bone-covered areas (forehead, shin) where the blunt sheering force stretches and tears the skin producing edges that appear sharp and clean, mimicking an incised wound. On close examination, irregularity, tissue bridges and contused margins identify it as a laceration.
Why forehead? The thin skin over the frontal bone offers little subcutaneous padding; blunt trauma causes the skin to split sharply against the bone via a shearing mechanism.
Medico-legal importance: Misidentifying as an incision could wrongly implicate a sharp weapon; careful examination prevents this error.
\[\boxed{\text{Incised looking laceration}}\]
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