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Lightning
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Lightning
Drug slang A regional term for amphetamine
Public health A meteorologic phenomenon caused by a massive atmospheric discharge of electricity, which typically occurs during thunderstorms, and rarely also during volcanic eruptions or dust storms

lightning
visible discharge of electricity between storm clouds or between the clouds and an earthing point at ground level.

lightning injury
exposure to high voltage electric shock by means of a lightning strike, which causes sudden nervous shock and unconsciousness or permanent cessation of medullary vital centers, resulting in sudden death. Animals that recover may have residual signs. Called also lightning strike. Fish in enclosed waters, e.g. farmed fish, may have their backs broken by lightning striking the water.
lightning strike
when lightning finds an earthing point.

lightning
Public health A meteorologic phenomenon caused by a massive discharge of electricity. Cf Lightening.


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Dr Mary Ann Cooper, a lightning injury specialist of the University of Illinois, USA, said the bolt's effect was split between the two - adding that it was "complicated".
Oashi M, Kitagawa N, Ishikawa T: Lightning injury caused by discharges accompanying flashover: a clinical and experimental study of death and survival.
They are considered a diagnostic sign of lightning injury and are described as "spidery," "branching" and "feathery.
 
 
 
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