Injury

Major trauma is injury that has the potential to cause prolonged disability or death.

Phenomena which commonly bring about death include aging, predation, malnutrition, disease, suicide, homicide, starvation, dehydration, and accidents or major trauma resulting in terminal injury.

A wound is a type of injury which happens relatively quickly in which skin is torn, cut, or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound).

Lightning injuries are injuries caused by a lightning strike.

Injury, also known as physical trauma, is damage to the body caused by external force.

Damage to a living organism may be referred to as an injury.

A blast injury is a complex type of physical trauma resulting from direct or indirect exposure to an explosion.

In medicine, an avulsion is an injury in which a body structure is torn off by either trauma or surgery (from the Latin avellere, meaning "to tear off").

A catastrophic injury is a severe injury to the spine, spinal cord, or brain, and may also include skull or spinal fractures.

A crush injury is injury by an object that causes compression of the body.

A burn is a type of injury to skin, or other tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, friction, or radiation.

The International Classification of External Causes of Injury (ICECI) is a medical classification providing codes for external injuries.

Microwave burns are burn injuries caused by thermal effects of microwave radiation absorbed in a living organism.

A toxic injury is a type of injury caused by toxin.

Pathology is the study of the causes and effects of disease or injury.

A bruise, also known as a contusion, is a type of hematoma of tissue, the most common cause being capillaries damaged by trauma, causing localized bleeding that extravasate into the surrounding interstitial tissues.

A common category with the greatest number of injuries is traumatic brain injury (TBI) following physical trauma or head injury from an outside source, and the term acquired brain injury (ABI) is used in appropriate circles to differentiate brain injuries occurring after birth from injury, from a genetic disorder, or from a congenital disorder.

In the developing world rates are similar, but it makes up a smaller proportion of overall deaths due to higher rates of death from other types of trauma.

In the majority of cases the damage results from physical trauma such as car accidents, gunshot wounds, falls, or sports injuries, but it can also result from nontraumatic causes such as infection, insufficient blood flow, and tumors.

Nerve injury is injury to nervous tissue.

DAI is the result of traumatic shearing forces that occur when the head is rapidly accelerated or decelerated, as may occur in car accidents, falls, and assaults.

But in general, brachial plexus injury can be classified as either traumatic or obstetric.

These impairments result from either traumatic brain injury (e.g. physical trauma due to accidents, assaults, neurosurgery, head injury etc.) or nontraumatic injury derived from either an internal or external source (e.g. stroke, brain tumours, infection, poisoning, hypoxia, ischemia, encephalopathy or substance abuse).

Lisfranc injury, also known as Lisfranc fracture, is an injury of the foot in which one or more of the metatarsal bones are displaced from the tarsus.

A liver injury, also known as liver laceration, is some form of trauma sustained to the liver.