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deceleration injury |
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deceleration injury, an injury resulting from a collision between a rapidly moving body part and a stationary object. deceleration injury Emergency medicine An MVA-related injury, in which a freely-mobile heart in the pericardial cavity is thrown forward, and either tears the fixed ligamentum arteriosum or, if the deceleration is extreme, ruptures the aorta,
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nbsp;Vertical deceleration injury Trauma medicine A type of blunt trauma due to jumping or falling from heights, usually > 5 stories Clinical Injury severity score is 41–predicted survival, 50%; actual survival is less; all had multiple |
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