Injury
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Illustration: The Flayed Angel (1746), anatomical drawing by Jacques Gautier d'Agoty
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Injury is damage to a biological organism which can be classified on various bases.
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Classification
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By cause
- Traumatic injury, a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident
- Other injuries from external physical causes, such as radiation injury, burn injury or frostbite
- Injury from toxin or as adverse effect of a pharmaceutical drug
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By location
- Wound, an injury in which skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). In pathology, it specifically refers to a sharp injury which damages the dermis of the skin.
- Brain injury
- Spinal cord injury
- Nerve injury
- Soft tissue injury
- Cell damage, including direct DNA damage
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By activity
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See also
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