Corrected entry: At the beginning of the scene where Katniss fights Clove after getting the backpack with Peeta's medicine, Clove throws a knife at her, and it cuts her forehead. If someone gets even a tiny scratch on his/her forehead it bleeds a lot, so a cut this big should at least blind Katniss with all the blood pouring from it [as the book says]. But after struggling and running for her life, there's not a single drop of blood on her, and when Peeta rubs the medicine on her forehead, it is as if the wound was days old.
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Correction: While head wounds do typically bleed a lot, it is not a guarantee. Sometimes deeper cuts bleed less and there are places/people who bleed less. Some people just don't bleed as much as others. Also, as Katniss surely has an adrenalin rush going, that alone could also explain the less than "typical" blood flow (adrenalin constricts the vascular system). As a paramedic, I have seen head wounds that bleed a lot and some that don't.
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