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Contact stellate wound

Entry wound morphology at hard-contact muzzle-to-skin distance over bone: central perforation with radiating linear lacerations caused by discharge gas expanding laterally beneath the skin. Soot is present inside the wound track but not as a surface halo. May be accompanied by a muzzle imprint contusion.

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