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INJURY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("injury" is a kind of...):
actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "injury"):
damage; legal injury; wrong (any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("injury" is a kind of...):
actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "injury"):
disservice; ill service; ill turn (an act intended to help that turns out badly)
spoil; spoilage; spoiling (the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it)
Derivation:
injure (cause injuries or bodily harm to)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An accident that results in physical damage or hurt
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("injury" is a kind of...):
accident (an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "injury"):
concussion (injury to the brain caused by a blow; usually resulting in loss of consciousness)
mutilation (an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part)
Derivation:
injure (cause injuries or bodily harm to)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
Synonyms:
combat injury; injury; wound
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("injury" is a kind of...):
loss; personnel casualty (military personnel lost by death or capture)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "injury"):
blighty wound (a wound that would cause an English soldier to be sent home from service abroad)
flesh wound (a wound that does not damage important internal organs or shatter any bones)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("injury" is a kind of...):
health problem; ill health; unhealthiness (a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "injury"):
cryopathy; frostbite (destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene)
intravasation (entry of foreign matter into a blood vessel)
penetrating injury; penetrating trauma (injury incurred when an object (as a knife or bullet or shrapnel) penetrates into the body)
pinch (an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed)
rupture (state of being torn or burst open)
bite; insect bite; sting (a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin)
strain (injury to a muscle (often caused by overuse); results in swelling and pain)
whiplash; whiplash injury (an injury to the neck (the cervical vertebrae) resulting from rapid acceleration or deceleration (as in an automobile accident))
wale; weal; welt; wheal (a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions)
lesion; wound (an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin))
pull; twist; wrench (a sharp strain on muscles or ligaments)
break; fracture (breaking of hard tissue such as bone)
electric shock (trauma caused by the passage of electric current through the body (as from contact with high voltage lines or being struck by lightning); usually involves burns and abnormal heart rhythm and unconsciousness)
dislocation (a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column))
burn (an injury caused by exposure to heat or chemicals or radiation)
bump (a lump on the body caused by a blow)
bruise; contusion (an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration)
blunt trauma (injury incurred when the human body hits or is hit by a large outside object (as a car))
bleeding; haemorrhage; hemorrhage (the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel)
blast trauma (injury caused the explosion of a bomb (especially in enclosed spaces))
birth trauma (physical injury to an infant during the birth process)
brain damage (injury to the brain that impairs its functions (especially permanently); can be caused by trauma to the head, infection, hemorrhage, inadequate oxygen, genetic abnormality, etc.)
Derivation:
injure (cause injuries or bodily harm to)
injurious (harmful to living things)
Context examples:
A small amount of methemoglobin is present in the blood normally, but injury or toxic agents convert a larger proportion of hemoglobin into methemoglobin, which does not function reversibly as an oxygen carrier.
(Methemoglobinemia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Blows were struck, and there were always two or three men nursing injuries at the hands of the human beast who was their master.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The myocardial injury may be accompanied by inflammation.
(Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
A coded value specifying the level of injury suffered by the subject for whom the event is reported.
(Adverse Event Grade Code, NCI Thesaurus)
Any attempt upon your part to follow the carriage can only end in injury to yourself.’
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is possible that patients who did not fully recover following a head injury may have had problems with the first phase of the repair process.
(Scientists watch the brain’s lining heal after a head injury, National Institutes of Health)
It has long been known that the human liver is one of the organs that can regenerate its own tissue after short-term injury.
(Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease, University of Cambridge)
Though, many victims sustained direct mechanical injury from cell phones too.
(Mobile phone could cause physical pain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A cataract in one eye that results from the aging process, an injury, or as a manifestation of a systemic disorder.
(Acquired Unilateral Cataract, NCI Thesaurus)
But as I was not in a condition to resent injuries, so upon mature thoughts I began to doubt whether I was injured or no.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
