Wound

In criminni cases, the definition of a "wound" is an injury to the person by which the skin is broken. State v. Leonard, 22 Mo. 451; Moriarty v. Brooks, 6 Car. & P. 684. "In legal medicine, the term 'woimd' is used in a much more comprehensive sense than in surgery. In the latter, it means strictly a solution of continuity ; in the former, injuries of every description that affect either the hard or the soft parts ; and accordingly under it are comprehended bruises, contusioiis, fractures, luxations," etc.

2 Beck, Med. Jur. 106.