injury

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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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The injured troops are often physically thrown as well, with resultant acceleration injury.
Blast-Related brain injuries are turning up in civilian practices: expert analysis from the annual meeting of the American neuropsychiatric association
Moreover, the injured troops are often physically thrown as well, with resultant acceleration injury.
Blast-related TBIs turn up in civilian practice
Among the changes produced by more distant explosions were deep white matter hemorrhages that were located in areas including the corpus callosum and thalamus and resembled the characteristic findings of deceleration and acceleration injury. Because the whales survived for less than 1 to 2 h, whether these forces also produced diffuse axonal injury could not be determined.
Pathology of blast-related brain injury

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