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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.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The meantime between occurrence of injury and admission was 18.3 hours; this is close to the findings of other surveys.
Assault injuries and self-harm injuries (defined as an injury or poisoning resulting from a deliberate violent act inflicted on oneself) accounted for $26.4 billion and $11.3 billion of lifetime costs, respectively.
At Grand Avenue shops in Ely a 32-year-old man suffered multiple injuries, a 10-year-old | At Leckwith, a 27-year-old woman suffered a head injury and a 49-year-old suffered multiple injuries.
While injuries in adult cricketers have been well documented in the literature, there remains a paucity of literature on injuries, injury patterns and risk factors in young cricketers.
It is plausible to reason that more training should correlate with lower injury incidence, and this is supported by research indicating a significant inverse relationship between children's Taekwondo rank and their aggression.
A multinational investigation entitled "The Health Behaviors of School-aged Children study" conducted by the World Heath Organization in 1998 examined injury characteristics among schoolchildren.
A48 - deaths, two; serious injury, five; slight injury, 66; total, 73.
Close proximity of cranial nerves, aero digestive tract, cervical spine and risk of their concomitant damage make carotid artery injury more peculiar as compared to other vascular injuries.
The most common injuries were strain or sprain (35%), fracture (23%), and soft tissue injury (22%).
The highest number of eye injuries is in children and most common cause of eye injuries in children are sharp objects like pen, pencil, needle, scissor, clip, scale, sharp corners of books and other causes like injury from tennis or cricket ball, toy gun plastic pallets, fire crackers and chemicals.
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