Sentence examples for devastating wounds from inspiring English sources

The.223-caliber bullet is a small, high-velocity round that has been used by Western military forces for decades, in part because it inflicts devastating wounds.

Many had devastating wounds.

Cleland suffered devastating wounds -- losing both legs and one arm -- while serving in Vietnam.

Some 16,000 young Americans who volunteered to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan have come home with devastating wounds.

Even with state-of-the-art, family-centered rehab therapy, complete or even satisfactory recovery from devastating wounds may not come for years, if at all.

Now, the Canadian Armed Forces is looking to develop a battlefield-ready adult stem cell program to help its soldiers quickly heal devastating wounds.

"Most of the victims had multiple gunshot wounds, really devastating gunshot wounds". Dr. David Richardson, a surgeon at the hospital, where 14 of the wounded were taken, said the assault rifle fired bullets with such velocity that they shattered bone, causing much greater damage than an ordinary weapon would have.

Lou Brissie, who suffered devastating leg wounds in World War II but went on to become an All-Star pitcher with the Philadelphia Athletics and a symbol of perseverance for the disabled, died on Monday in Augusta, Ga.

"This nation has a solemn obligation to the men and women who have honorably served this country and suffer from the emotional and often devastating hidden wounds of war," the secretary of veterans affairs, Eric K. Shinseki, said in a statement to The New York Times.

However, the reported complications with open releases may be devastating, in particular wound dehiscence.

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