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First Aid Medical and Injury Terminology

First Aid Medical and Injury Terminology. Abrasion. An Injury consisting of the loss of a partial thickness of skin from rubbing or scraping on a har, rough surface; also called a brush burn, mat burn or friction burn. Laceration. A wound made by tearing or cutting of body tissues. PUNCTURE.

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First Aid Medical and Injury Terminology

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  1. First AidMedical and Injury Terminology

  2. Abrasion • An Injury consisting of the loss of a partial thickness of skin from rubbing or scraping on a har, rough surface; also called a brush burn, mat burn or friction burn.

  3. Laceration • A wound made by tearing or cutting of body tissues

  4. PUNCTURE • The piercing of an organ or other body structure with a pointed instrument.

  5. Impaled Object • An object that has caused a puncture wound and remains embedded in the wound

  6. AVULSION • An injury that leaves a piece of skin or other tissue either partially or completely torn away from the body.

  7. Closed fracture • A simple break or rupture in the bone, one that does not cause a break in the skin.

  8. Comminuted or Impacted Fracture • A fracture in which the bone is shattered and broken into small pieces. • The Ends of the bones can also be jammed together

  9. Compound Fracture • An open fracture, one in which the bone ends pierce the skin.

  10. Other bone fractures

  11. Simple Dislocation • Displacement of a body part

  12. Complete Dislocation

  13. Dismemberment • Amputation of an extremity or portion of it.

  14. Acute pain…………… • Having a rapid onset, severe symptoms and a relatively short duration.

  15. Chronic Pain • Long continue with slow onset.

  16. Anoxia • Without oxygen; a reduction of oxygen in body tissue below required physiological levels.

  17. Asphyxiation • Suffocation:

  18. Contusion • Injury to the tissues (bruise) w/o skin breakage

  19. Hemorrhage • Abnormally large amount of bleeding.

  20. Hematoma • A localized collection of blood in an organ tissue, or space as a result of injury or a broken blood vessel.

  21. Hemiplegia • Paralysis of one side of the body.

  22. Ligaments………………. • A tough band Of connective tissue that connects bone to bone or that supports any organ

  23. Tendons • A tough bane of dense, fibrous, connective tissue that attaches muscles to bone and other parts.

  24. Cartilage • A spongy form of connective tissue which acts as a shock absorber between two long bones.

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