flesh wound

English

Noun

flesh wound (plural flesh wounds)

1. An injury which pierces the skin and causes bleeding, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs, and does not carry a serious threat of death.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     I found him dreadfully bruised, worse even than myself, perhaps owing to the excessive whiteness of his skin, and faint and weak with the loss of blood from the flesh wound in his side, but for all that cheerful as a cricket, and asking for some breakfast.

Translations

injury which pierces the skin, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輕傷／轻伤 (zh) (qīngshāng)

• Danish: kødsår n
• Finnish: lihashaava
• French: blessure légère f
• German: Fleischwunde (de) f
• Italian: ferita superficiale f
• Maori: kaiākiri
• Russian: ране́ние мя́гких тка́ней n (ranénije mjáxkix tkánej)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: köttsår (sv) n