# Cut fingers **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 13, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cut-fingers/40928 "2000-11-13T00:37:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cut-fingers/40928/1 "2000-11-13T00:37:45Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2000, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cut-fingers/40928/2 "2000-11-13T02:01:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![mjwRx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@mjwRx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjwRx)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2000, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cut-fingers/40928/3 "2000-11-13T06:34:07Z")
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?