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injury

Law a violation or infringement of another person's rights that causes him harm and is actionable at law
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injury

[′in·jə·rē]
(medicine)
A structural or functional stress or trauma that induces a pathologic process.
Damage resulting from the stress.
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Table-I: Complications/Co-morbidity among patients who sustained spinal cord injury due to fall from electricity poles after electrocution.
Further, two of those six patients were assessed to have AIS B spinal cord injury at the six-month primary endpoint but were later assessed to have improved to AIS C SCI at the 12-month visit.
Samples were taken of spinal cord tissues from all groups from central,cranial, and caudal to the site of spinal cord injury. Segments from the CSCI site were immersed in 4 % paraformaldehyde, followed by immediate fixation in 3 % glutaraldehyde and 1 % paraformaldehyde in 0.1 M phosphate buffer, pH 7.4, for 3 h, and then postfixed in 1 % osmium tetroxide in the same buffer for 2 hours.
Hospital readmissions in people with chronic spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 2000; 38(6): 371-7.
OPC1, an oligodendrocyte progenitor cell population derived from human embryonic stem cells, has been shown in preclinical testing in animals and in vitro to have three potentially reparative functions that address the complex pathologies observed in demyelination disorders, such as spinal cord injury and multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including multiple sclerosis and white matter stroke.
Incidence of traumatic spinal cord injury worldwide: a systematic review.
Senior author Michael Skinnider said, "Our understanding of the pathophysiological processes triggered by spinal cord injury is fragmentary.
The Malaysian Spinal Cord Injury Advocacy Association said in certain conditions, it was difficult to position metal straws compared to soft and flexible plastic straws.
Mr Eddy Dhliwayo, another one affected by the spinal cord injury, said living with the injury was not easy.
These findings in a 'preclinical trial' support translation of NPC graft therapy to humans with the objective of reconstituting both a neuronal and glial milieu in the site of spinal cord injury."
The second side of the relationship between ageing and spinal cord injury is the increasing of the mean age of the lesion, correlated with the worldwide progressive ageing of population.
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