Cut fingers

[dougie_monty]

A couple of days ago, I cut my left pinkie (I'm right-handed) on a plate that suddenly broke into four pieces as I lifted it out of a sink of soapy water. I started bleeding, and, oddly enough, the area of the pinky near the cut looked depressed, as if something significant had really drained out of it. Since then I've kept a bandage on the pinky, but I want to know: Why would the finger look dented? Is this a natural reaction to the trauma of being cut by a broken dish?

[Ike Witt]

Just a WAG, but you probably removed a lot of the skin, even if if wasn't deep enough to bleed in entire area of trauma.

[mjwRx]

Here's another WAG -- the one of the bodies first responses to a laceration is to compress any affected blood vessels (followed by clot formers and antibodies and stuff like that there.....) Maybe the vascular compression made it look that way?