Gunshot Wound - CISMeF

Preferred Label : Gunshot Wound;

ICNP knowledge name : GunshotWound;

ICNP description : Traumatic Wound: Wound caused by a gunshot, and classified into entrance wounds, exit wounds and wound tracks. Entrance wounds have varying effects on tissues, e.g. impact of the bullet alone or burns from gunpowder, according to the range at which the gun is fired. A bullet may pierce through a human body, stop inside the body, injure the body surface or scrape over the skin surface, depending on the shooting range, bullet angle and body angle.;

Details

Origin ID

10008619;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Bullet wound (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Legal intervention involving firearm discharge [ICD-10 Sub-category (who)]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Gunshot wound (disorder) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Gunshot wound (morphologic abnormality) [SNOMED CT concept]
- gunshot wound [Disease (Nov.)]
- gunshot wound, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- wounds, gunshot [MeSH Descriptor]
- wounds, gunshot [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Injury or Poisoning [UMLS semantic type]

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