Structured Summary
Abstract
Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.
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Classification
Narrower headings
- Abdominal Injuries
- Accidental Injuries
- Arm Injuries
- Asphyxia
- Athletic Injuries
- Back Injuries
- Barotrauma
- Birth Injuries
- Bites and Stings
- Bone Fractures
- Burns
- Cartilage Fractures
- Cold Injury
- Contrecoup Injury
- Crush Injuries
- Drowning
- Electric Injuries
- Esophageal Perforation
- Extravasation of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Materials
- Foreign Bodies
- Frostbite
- Hand Injuries
- Heat Stress Disorders
- Hip Injuries
- Joint Dislocations
- Lacerations
- Leg Injuries
- Multiple Trauma
- Nasal Septal Perforation
- Neck Injuries
- Nervous System Trauma
- Nonpenetrating Wounds
- Occupational Injuries
- Penetrating Wounds
- Physical Microtrauma
- Radiation Injuries
- Reinjuries
- Retropneumoperitoneum
- Rupture
- Self Mutilation
- Shoulder Injuries
- Soft Tissue Injuries
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Sprains and Strains
- Surgical Wound
- Tendon Injuries
- Thoracic Injuries
- Tooth Injuries
- Traumatic Amputation
- Traumatic Shock
- Tympanic Membrane Perforation
- Vascular System Injuries
- War-Related Injuries
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Synonyms
18 entry terms
- Injuries and Wounds
- Injuries, Wounds
- Wounds and Injury
- Wounds, Injury
- Injury and Wounds
- Injuries
- Physical Trauma
- Research-Related Injuries
- Trauma
- Wounds
- Injury
- Injury, Research-Related
- Physical Traumas
- Research Related Injuries
- Research-Related Injury
- Trauma, Physical
- Traumas
- Wound
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Aspects Covered
35 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, 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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Indexing Annotation
general or unspecified; prefer / inj with organs or specific organ / injury terms
MeSH Hierarchy
Tree Number
- C26w
AMA Style
References
- National Library of Medicine. Wounds and Injuries. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014947. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014947
- Wounds and Injuries. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injury_in_humans
- Wounds and Injuries. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193078