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  Bruise

  A bruise or contusion or ecchymosis is a kind of injury, usually caused by blunt impact, in which the capillaries are damaged, allowing blood to seep into the surrounding ... > more
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  Self-harm

  Self-harm (SH) is deliberate injury inflicted by a person upon his or her own body. Some scholars use more technical definitions related to specific aspects of ... > more
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  Burn (injury)

  A burn is a type of injury to the skin caused by heat, electricity, chemicals, or radiation (an example of the latter is sunburn). Scalding is a specific type of burning that is caused by hot ... > more
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  Plastic surgery

  Plastic surgery is a general term for operative manual and instrumental treatment which is performed for functional or aesthetic reasons. The principal areas of plastic surgery include two broad ... > more
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  Panic attack

  A panic attack is a period of intense, often temporarily disabling sense of extreme fear or psychological distress, typically of abrupt onset. Though it is often a purely terrifying feeling to the ... > more
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  Oxygen therapy

  Oxygen therapy is the administration of oxygen as a therapeutic modality. Oxygen therapy benefits the patient by increasing the supply of oxygen to the lungs and thereby increasing the availability ... > more
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  Ionizing radiation

  Ionizing radiation is a type of particle radiation in which an individual particle (for example, a photon, electron, or helium nucleus) carries enough energy to ionize an atom or molecule (that is, ... > more
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  Stillbirth

  A stillbirth occurs when a fetus, of mid-second trimester to full term gestational age, which has died in the womb or during labour or delivery, exits the maternal ... > more
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  List of medical topics

  This is a list of medical ... > more
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  Extraction (dental)

  A dental extraction is the removal of a tooth from the mouth. Extractions are performed for a wide variety of reasons. Tooth decay (properly known as dental caries) that has destroyed enough tooth ... > more

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