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Title: First Aid Medical and Injury Terminology


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First AidMedical and Injury Terminology
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Abrasion
  • An Injury consisting of the loss of a partial
    thickness of skin from rubbing or scraping on a
    har, rough surface also called a brush burn, mat
    burn or friction burn.

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Laceration
  • A wound made by tearing or cutting of body tissues

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PUNCTURE
  • The piercing of an organ or other body structure
    with a pointed instrument.

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Impaled Object
  • An object that has caused a puncture wound and
    remains embedded in the wound

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AVULSION
  • An injury that leaves a piece of skin or other
    tissue either partially or completely torn away
    from the body.

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Closed fracture
  • A simple break or rupture in the bone, one that
    does not cause a break in the skin.

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Comminuted or Impacted Fracture
  • A fracture in which the bone is shattered and
    broken into small pieces.
  • The Ends of the bones can also be jammed together

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Compound Fracture
  • An open fracture, one in which the bone ends
    pierce the skin.

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Other bone fractures

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Simple Dislocation
  • Displacement of a body part

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Complete Dislocation
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Dismemberment
  • Amputation of an extremity or portion of it.

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Acute pain
  • Having a rapid onset, severe symptoms and a
    relatively short duration.

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Chronic Pain
  • Long continue with slow onset.

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Anoxia
  • Without oxygen a reduction of oxygen in body
    tissue below required physiological levels.

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Asphyxiation
  • Suffocation

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Contusion
  • Injury to the tissues (bruise) w/o skin breakage

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Hemorrhage
  • Abnormally large amount of bleeding.

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Hematoma
  • A localized collection of blood in an organ
    tissue, or space as a result of injury or a
    broken blood vessel.

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Hemiplegia
  • Paralysis of one side of the body.

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Ligaments.
  • A tough band
  • Of connective
  • tissue that
  • connects bone
  • to bone or that
  • supports any
  • organ

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Tendons
  • A tough bane of dense, fibrous, connective tissue
    that attaches muscles to bone and other parts.

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Cartilage
  • A spongy form of connective tissue which acts as
    a shock absorber between two long bones.

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