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  2. Injury in humans - Wikipedia

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    Major trauma is a severe traumatic injury that has the potential to cause disability or death. Serious traumatic injury most often occurs as a result of traffic collisions. [11] Traumatic injury is the leading cause of death in people under the age of 45. [12] Blunt trauma injuries are caused by the forceful impact of an external object.

  3. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    The causes listed are relatively immediate medical causes, but the ultimate cause of death might be described differently. For example, tobacco smoking often causes lung disease or cancer, and alcohol use disorder can cause liver failure or a motor vehicle accident.

  4. Category:Causes of death - Wikipedia

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    Vital statistics generally distinguish specific injuries and diseases as cause of death, from general categories like homicide, accident, and death by natural causes as manner of death. Both are listed in this category, as are both proximal and root causes of death. An injury that could be fatal is called major trauma; see also Category:Injuries.

  5. Choking - Wikipedia

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    Choking is the fourth leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. [7] [3] Many episodes go unreported because they are brief and resolve without needing medical attention. [8] Of the reported events, 80% occur in people under 15 years of age, and 20% occur in people older than 15 years of age. [7]

  6. Major trauma - Wikipedia

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    Injuries may be caused by any combination of external forces that act physically against the body. [10] The leading causes of traumatic death are blunt trauma, motor vehicle collisions, and falls, followed by penetrating trauma such as stab wounds or impaled objects. [11] Subsets of blunt trauma are both the number one and two causes of ...

  7. Necrosis - Wikipedia

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    Necrosis (from Ancient Greek νέκρωσις (nékrōsis) 'death') is a form of cell injury which results in the premature death of cells in living tissue by autolysis. [1] The term "necrosis" came about in the mid-19th century and is commonly attributed to German pathologist Rudolf Virchow , who is often regarded as one of the founders of ...

  8. Catastrophic injury - Wikipedia

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    From 1945 to 2005, there were 497 fatalities, of which 69% were a result of brain injury and 16% from spinal cord injury. [5] Today, the most common catastrophic injury in American football is cervical spinal cord injury, [9] which is also the "second leading cause of death attributable to football". [9]

  9. Cardiac arrest - Wikipedia

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    Common cardiac causes include coronary artery disease, non-atherosclerotic coronary artery abnormalities, structural heart damage, and inherited arrhythmias. Common non-cardiac causes include respiratory arrest, diabetes, medications, and trauma. The most common mechanism underlying sudden cardiac arrest is an arrhythmia (an irregular rhythm). [30]