Word.ws English Dictionary

gutter wound

gutter wound noun: a traumatic wound oriented tangentially to the surface (of the skin or an internal organ), which creates a groove or furrow without passing beneath the surface.

Noun

gutter wound (plural gutter wounds)

  1. A traumatic wound oriented tangentially to the surface (of the skin or an internal organ), which creates a groove or furrow without passing beneath the surface.

Forms of gutter wound

pluralgutter wounds

Origin of gutter wound

From the shape in profile of such a wound, somewhat resembling that of a building's gutter.

Questions about gutter wound

What does gutter wound mean?
Gutter wound means a traumatic wound oriented tangentially to the surface (of the skin or an internal organ), which creates a groove or furrow without passing beneath the surface.
What part of speech is gutter wound?
Gutter wound is a noun.
What is the plural of gutter wound?
The plural of gutter wound is gutter wounds.

Words near gutter wound in the dictionary

  1. gutter rabbit
  2. gutter rabbits
  3. gutter rat
  4. gutter stick
  5. gutter sticks
  6. gutter wound
  7. gutter wounds
  8. gutter-dog
  9. gutter-dogs
  10. gutteral
  11. gutterball

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gutter wound (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gutter wound.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gutter_wound. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.