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OBJECTIVES@#To study the morphological characteristics of the injury caused by ox horn on human body and its injury mechanism, and to discuss the rules and characteristics of injury by ox horn and provide forensic evidences for identification of such cases.@*METHODS@#The comparative analysis of position and morphological characteristics were performed by summarizing the data of 100 victims gored by ox accepted by Heilongjiang agricultural areas public security bureau during 2004-2014.@*RESULTS@#The specific injuries only could be found at the contact positions such as thorax and abdomen, lower back and limbs of the victims gored by ox horn. Most of the skin wounds had the characteristics of sharp injuries, the bar-type injury by club which called "rail way bruise" was an obvious characteristic appeared on the soft tissue.@*CONCLUSIONS@#Ox horn can cause non-specific injuries on thorax and abdomen, lower back and limbs of human body, which are similar with the characteristics of sharp injury and injury by club. Careful analyzation and identification should be performed on such injury in daily work.
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Animals , Cattle , Female , Humans , Abdominal Injuries/etiology , Lower Extremity , Thorax , Wounds and Injuries/etiology , Wounds, PenetratingABSTRACT
Objective T o study the m orphological characteristics of the injury caused by ox horn on hu-m an body and its injury m echanism , and to discuss the rules and characteristics of injury by ox horn and provide forensic evidences for identification of such cases. Methods T he com parative analysis of po-sition and m orphological characteristics w ere perform ed by sum m arizing the data of 100 victim s gored by ox accepted by H eilongjiang agricultural areas public security bureau during 2004-2014. Results T he specific injuries only could be found at the contact positions such as thorax and abdom en, low er back and lim bs of the victim s gored by ox horn. M ost of the skin w ounds had the characteristics of sharp in-juries, the bar-type injury by club w hich called rail w ay bruise w as an obvious characteristic appeared on the soft tissue. Conclusion O x horn can cause non-specific injuries on thorax and abdom en , low er back and lim bs of hum an body, w hich are sim ilar w ith the characteristics of sharp injury and injury by club. C areful analyzation and identification should be perform ed on such injury in daily w ork.