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Disorders of Environmental Origin

 

 


Barotrauma -
Any of several disorders arising from changes in pressure upon the body. Several complications arising from changes in pressure are commonly known as squeezes.

Burns

Craniocerebral Trauma -
The concussive and shearing stresses of head injury may cause concussion (a brief loss of consciousness without permanent consequences), contusion of the brain (most often of the tips of the frontal and temporal lobes, called contre-coup injury), or laceration of the brain tissue. In the last two cases, neurological deficits are detected at the time of injury, and with laceration (as in a depressed fracture of the skull) or bleeding into the brain, the eventual incidence of seizures is high.

Electric Injuries

Frostbite -
It occurs whenever heat loss from a tissue is sufficient to permit ice formation. The freezing-thawing process causes mechanical damage to cells (from ice), tissue dehydration, and local oxygen depletion. It leads to disruption of the blood corpuscles, thrombosis (clotting) within the small blood vessels, and tissue gangrene.

Injury

Occupational Diseases -
Any illness associated with a particular occupation or industry.

Spinal Cord Injuries

Wounds, Penetrating and Non-penetrating

 

 

 

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