Form of penetrating trauma to the skin that results from a knife or a similar pointed object that is "deeper than it is wide"

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The Sultan stabs Zara in the chest: the finale of the play Zaire (Zara) by Voltaire. Etching.

The martyrdom of Saint Agnes: she is stabbed, and an angel receives the martyr's palm from Christ for bestowal upon her. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.

The martyrdom of Saint Agnes: she is stabbed, and an angel receives the martyr's palm from Christ for bestowal upon her. Engraving by G. Audran after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.

The martyrdom of Saint Agnes. Pen and ink drawing by F. Rosaspina (?) after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino, 1619-21.

Horrible and bar-bari-ous murder of poor Jael Denny : the ill-fated victim of Thomas Drory.

De thoracis vulneribus ense inflictis : dissertatio anatomico-chirurgica.

Cruel murder committed by Robert Johnstone, on the body of Miss Jane Henderson : near Rosevale village on the banks of the Humber, a few miles from Hull, on Saturday, 27th June, 1863.

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Wounds, Stab

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Horrible and bar-bari-ous murder of poor Jael Denny : the ill-fated victim of Thomas Drory.

The martyrdom of Saint Agnes: she is stabbed, and an angel receives the martyr's palm from Christ for bestowal upon her. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.

De thoracis vulneribus ense inflictis : dissertatio anatomico-chirurgica.

De thoracis vulneribus ense inflictis : dissertatio anatomico-chirurgica.

Cruel murder committed by Robert Johnstone, on the body of Miss Jane Henderson : near Rosevale village on the banks of the Humber, a few miles from Hull, on Saturday, 27th June, 1863.

Wounds, Stab

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Horrible and bar-bari-ous murder of poor Jael Denny : the ill-fated victim of Thomas Drory.

The martyrdom of Saint Agnes: she is stabbed, and an angel receives the martyr's palm from Christ for bestowal upon her. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after D. Zampieri, il Domenichino.

De thoracis vulneribus ense inflictis : dissertatio anatomico-chirurgica.

De thoracis vulneribus ense inflictis : dissertatio anatomico-chirurgica.

Cruel murder committed by Robert Johnstone, on the body of Miss Jane Henderson : near Rosevale village on the banks of the Humber, a few miles from Hull, on Saturday, 27th June, 1863.

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