First Aid Medical and Injury Terminology

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First AidMedical and Injury Terminology
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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.

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Laceration

• A wound made by tearing or cutting of body tissues

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PUNCTURE

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

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Impaled Object

• An object that has caused a puncture wound and
  remains embedded in the wound

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AVULSION

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

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Closed fracture

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

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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

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Compound Fracture

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

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Other bone fractures

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Simple Dislocation

• Displacement of a body part

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Complete Dislocation
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Dismemberment

• Amputation of an extremity or portion of it.

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Acute pain

• Having a rapid onset, severe symptoms and a
  relatively short duration.

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Chronic Pain

• Long continue with slow onset.

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Anoxia

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

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Asphyxiation

• Suffocation

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Contusion

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

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Hemorrhage

• Abnormally large amount of bleeding.

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Hematoma

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

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Hemiplegia

• Paralysis of one side of the body.

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Ligaments.

• A tough band
• Of connective
• tissue that
• connects bone
• to bone or that
• supports any
• organ

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Tendons

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

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Cartilage

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

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