Diseases

Blast Injuries

Injuries resulting when a person is struck by particles impelled with violent force from an explosion. Blast causes pulmonary concussion and hemorrhage, laceration of other thoracic and abdominal viscera, ruptured ear drums, and minor effects in the central nervous system. (From Dorland, 27th ed)

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Injuries resulting when a person is struck by particles impelled with violent force from an explosion. Blast causes pulmonary concussion and hemorrhage, laceration of other thoracic and abdominal viscera, ruptured ear drums, and minor effects in the central nervous system. (From Dorland, 27th ed)

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  • Injuries, Blast
  • Blast Injury
  • Injury, Blast

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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various body inj from waves of high-pressure velocity; /compl permitted but do not confuse with /pathol

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73; was BLAST INJURY 1963-72

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Blast Injuries. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001753. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001753
  2. Blast Injuries. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_injury
  3. Blast Injuries. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3048989