What exactly is a superficial wound?
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I wish I didn't know this, but...
"Superficial" means the wound has not reached past the outer "shell" of human flesh that protects the organs and major circulatory systems of our body...(A superficial wound of a fruit, releases a little juice, but it's still edible...a more serious wound...makes it into a a wine cooler smoothie...so with fruit...wounds of all kinds are sometimes a good thing...)
(before my eyes fell across your question...I was thinking about going down to the store to get a smoothie...I add the wine at home with some more ice, and blend it up...good on a hot summer Texas afternoon...or anytime...just wanted to let you know there's no relation to your question and the paranthetically dominated 2nd part of this answer...)
scrape or scratch that does not need stitches
just a layer of skin is removed no subcutaneous fat or muscle tissue is exposed.
a non-serious wound. usually the skin is barely scratched. very little blood loss.
Its like when Paris Hilton gets a boo boo
It means it's not penetrating to damage flesh beneath the skin. A superficial wound wouldn't likely even need stitches.
A superficial wound is a wound where the top layer of skin is scraped or torn. Can also be called a 'flesh wound'.
A superficial wound is basically a wound that is external and not real deep in the skin. I was told I had a superficial staph infection and it was not it was bone deep and I lost most of my chest bone because of a misdiagonosis. A partial thickness is just that half thick or not as thick as a full
Laceration
you have several layers of different types of tissue. top layer is the epidermis, made up of skin and other body structures. under the epidermis is the dermis, with has 2 layers and several other body structures, followed by a deeper subcutanious tissue. when you get sunburn, typically the skin or top layer is effected, gets red and hurts. if you get blisters from your sunburn, the burn is deeper than the superficial (top)layer of skin. partial thickness. if you wre in a house fire and had severe burns that chard off your skin and the fat layers under your skin to your bones down to the subcutanious tissues, that would be a full thickness. so in general terms, a superical burn is a partical burn and any burn that goes deeper into the fat and muscle tissues can be considered to be a full thinkness burn. how this makes sense and is helpful
just a skin abrasion where it scrapes off the top layer of skin. Full thicknes is down to the fatty and muscle part of your body.
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