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1Injury prevention — are efforts to prevent or reduce the severity of bodily injuries caused by external mechanisms, such as accidents, before they occur. Injury prevention is a component of safety and public health, and its goal is to improve the health of the… …
2Needlestick injury — Classification and external resources ICD 10 W46 ICD 9 E92.05 MeSH …
3Traumatic brain injury — See also: Brain injury (disambiguation) Traumatic brain injury Classification and external resources …
4Reperfusion injury — Classification and external resources MeSH D015427 Reperfusion injury is the tissue damage caused when blood supply returns to the tissue after a period of ischemia or lack of oxygen. The absence of oxygen and …
5Blast injury — Infobox Disease Name = Blast injury Caption = DiseasesDB = ICD10 = ICD9 = ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = emerg eMedicineTopic = 63 MeshID = A blast injury is the result of physical trauma sustained in an explosion. Blast injuries are …
6radiation injury — Tissue damage caused by exposure to ionizing radiation. Structures with rapid cell turnover (e.g., skin, stomach or intestinal lining, and bone marrow) are most susceptible. High dose irradiation of the last two causes radiation sickness. Nausea… …
7impact injury — ▪ trauma the damage caused by the collision of a body with a moving or stationary object. Impact injuries can occur in any accident involving moving vehicles, such as automobiles, motorcycles, and trains, parachute landings, seat ejections …
8ionizing radiation injury — also called radiation sickness tissue destruction or changes caused by deeply penetrating electromagnetic waves of high frequency or subatomic particles (subatomic particle) that form positively and negatively charged particles in the… …
9avoidance behaviour — Type of activity, exhibited by animals exposed to adverse stimuli, in which the tendency to flee or to act defensively is stronger than the tendency to attack. Vision is the sense that most often produces avoidance behaviour (e.g., small birds… …
10Decoy — De*coy , n. 1. Anything intended to lead into a snare; a lure that deceives and misleads into danger, or into the power of an enemy; a bait. [1913 Webster] 2. A fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or… …
