Questions tagged [injury]
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Mixed martial art fighters, and "not having a chin"
I am far from an expert in the medical sciences, but there is conventional wisdom that as an athlete in combat sports gets knocked out (concussed or otherwise) for the first time, it opens the floodgates to him/her being knocked out more and more…
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location of injury occurence and are these injuries logical?
It is essential to the plot of my story for My character (human) to be injured. I know her injuries which are, her leg and right arm bones are either fractured or broken in different places. Her right shoulder is dislocated. On her left arm, her…
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What is the clear liquid that builds up inside a blister?
so yesterday my finger got pinch-crushed by a door (a small part of the finger got jammed into a door when it closed but not the full finger so it was like a pinch but more painful). the result is what my mum said was a blister. it did go a bit…
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How does the injury classification system work?
Whenever an incident has caused someone to become hospitalized, news reports on the incidents are always quite vague about the injuries. I understand how these injuries relate to each other, but not what they entail. What is the difference between…
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Is a 35-foot fall into water survivable?
When I was a kid, I read a graphic novel called "Into the Volcano" by Don Wood. The novel is about an expedition into the heart of an erupting volcano to recover a missing family fortune. During the novel, two of the expedition members, Sumo and…
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What is difference between wet and dry gangrene?
I have studied in pathology class and my professor talked about these types of injury but i'm not sure how to distinguish between these 2 terms.
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