Injury
Injury means a harm or hurt to the body of a living thing.
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
- Crabeater Seal Injured by Predator.JPG
A crabeater seal injured by a predator
- Zauneidechse 1469.jpg
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
- US Navy 041117-M-0000G-004 U.S. Navy Surgeons and Hospital Corpsman, assigned to the Surgical-Shock Trauma Platoon (SSTP) at Camp Taqaddum, Iraq, operate on a Marine.jpg
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.