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Injury or actual abrasion is damage or harm acquired to the structure or function of the body acquired by an alfresco agent or force, which may be concrete or chemical, and either by accident or intentional. Personal Abrasion aswell refers to accident acquired to the acceptability of addition rather than concrete abuse to the body. A astringent and life-threatening abrasion is referred to as a physical trauma.

Types of injury

Minor abrasion injury.

Disability-adjusted activity year for accidental injuries per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004.¹

     no data      less than 250      250-500      500-750      750-1000      1000-1250      1250-1500      1500-1750      1750-2000      2000-3000      3000-5000      5000-6000      more than 6000

• Bruise is a hemorrhage beneath the derma acquired by contusion.
• Wound: cuts and grazes are injuries to or through the skin, that could could could could cause bleeding (i.e., a laceration).
• Burns are injuries acquired by balance heat, actinic exposure, or sometimes algid (frostbite).
• Fractures are injuries to bones.
• Joint dislocation is a displacement of a cartilage from its accustomed joint, such as a confused accept or finger.
• Concussion is balmy alarming academician abrasion acquired by a blow, after any assimilation into the skull or brain.
• Sprain is an abrasion which occurs to ligaments acquired by a abrupt over stretching; a strain injures muscles.
• Shock is a austere medical activity area the tissues cannot access acceptable oxygen and nutrients.
• Amputation is the abatement of a physique acme by trauma or surgery.
• Serious actual injury is any abrasion or injuries to the physique that essentially risks afterlife of the victim.

Common causes

There is no ample calibration statistics on the accident of accessory injuries. However, for physical traumas or injuries arch to hospital discharge, accepted causes are cartage accidents and falls.

Legal issues

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Various legal remedies may be accessible for personal injury (eg. beneath the law negligence) or for abrasion to the acceptability of addition (eg. see damages and restitution) for aspersion or libel. In the United States, the acknowledged analogue of malicious injury is any abrasion committed with malice, abhorrence or one committed spitefully or wantonly. Such an activity have to be foolishly committed with the ability that it is accountable to could could could could cause injury. Abrasion involving aspect of fraud, violence, wantonness, willfulness, or criminality.

Feigning injury

Injuries may be feigned by a getting or beastly for assorted causes.

People

Faking or exaggerating an abrasion is a anatomy of malingering and may acquiesce a getting to accept compensation, injury cover, or may aftereffect in a aggregation getting awarded a amends in a bold of football.

Animals

An opossum will feign abrasion or afterlife to escape predators

The byword "playing possum" is acquired from the behaviour of the opossum, a mammal which will actor the actualization and that appears to smell of a ailing or asleep beastly if threatened. Birds such as the killdeer are accepted to feign abrasion to advance a predator abroad from their nest. The predator gives chase, assertive them to be simple prey, but the bird again flies away, hopefully accepting absent the predator abundantly to anticipate it from award its nest.

See also

• Assault
• Battery
• Negligence
• Personal injury
• Tort

External links

Look up injury in Wiktionary, the chargeless dictionary.

• World Health Organization - Injuries

References

1. ^ "Death and DALY estimates for 2004 by could could could could cause for WHO Member States" (xls). World Health Organization. 2004. http://www.who.int/entity/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/gbddeathdalycountryestimates2004.xls.