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Internal beveling

The cone-shaped defect geometry at an entrance gunshot wound in bone: the outer table diameter (entry face) is smaller than the inner table diameter (exit face of the defect), because tensile failure on the inner table produces a wider fracture zone than the compressive punching on the outer table.

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