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

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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Treatment The goal of treatment is relief of pain and prevention of permanent spinal cord and nerve root injury.
1,7,9) Reported advantages of the endoscopic approach, when compared with the Caldwell-Luc procedure, include less invasiveness and decreased associated morbidity, decreased risk of tooth root injury, and the ability to fully visualize the sinus.
This observation may suggest that draconian nerve root injury is needed to cause severe postoperative calf pain.
 
 
 
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