Self-inflicted wound

• Suicide or suicide attempt
• Self-harm (non-suicidal self-injury)
• As a result of an organic brain syndrome
• Pursuit of an ulterior motive, including:
  • To avoid military service
• Self-surgery, including:
  • Autoenucleation
  • Self-inflicted caesarean section
  • Self-castration
• Body modification, including for ritual purposes
• Autoeroticism

While some sources use the terms to include accidental injury, others cast "self-inflicted" in opposition to "accidental".

The term is also used metaphorically, akin to "shooting oneself in the foot".