Injury
Injury means a harm or hurt.
Usually an injury is when the body or a part of the body is damaged by something outside of the body. Another word for injury to a body is trauma.
Injury can be by:
- Environmental – Burns from heat or injury from cold
- Penetrating injury – when a sharp object like a knife pierces the body
- Blunt injury – when something hits the body (like punching someone or falling from a tree)
- Chemical – being hurt by chemicals like burns from acid
Injury can be accidental or intentional. In an intentional injury a person tries to hurt another. (Intentional injury is also called non-accidental injury). Accidental injury is without meaning to hurt someone. A traffic collision for example may injure someone accidentally.
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Injury Media
A crabeater seal injured by a predator
A sand lizard that has shed its tail when attacked by a predator, and has started to regrow a tail from the site of the injury
Injuries to humans elicit an elaborate response including emergency medicine, trauma surgery (illustrated), and pain management.
Oak tree split by lightning, an abiotic cause of injury.
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