Why does a person’s head start bleeding when it’s hit hard enough? How does a cut form from just hitting?

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I’m not really too sure about this in real life since I don’t see fights that often, but why do movies and cartoons show that? For example, I saw a cartoon where someone smacked the other person with a baseball bat. Suddenly they’re laying on the ground, bleeding on the back of the head.

I get areas where there’s a passage way like your nose, mouth, and even ears but why do random spots on the head bleed when no cuts were involved? How does the skin rips open after a big blow to it?

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I hit my eyebrow against someone’s shin as a kid, got a real bad gash and needed stitches. The doctor explained it to me that the pressure and friction literally tore my skin over the ridge of my brow.

Our body is pretty squishy mostly, able to distribute blunt impact across thick layers of skin, fat, and muscle. But our faces are thin skin over angular bone, which makes it a lot easier to simply tear the skin and make it a pseudo-cut instead.

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