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  2. Crash test dummy - Wikipedia

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    The disadvantage, though, to using an instrumented dummy or a human cadaver, is that the tissue is not alive and will not elicit the same response as a live animal. [17] By 1991, the use of animals in vehicle collision tests was in decline because of advances in computers and technology. [ 7 ]

  3. Wound licking - Wikipedia

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    Wound licking is an instinctive response in humans and many other animals to cover an injury or second degree burn [1] with saliva. Dogs, cats, small rodents, horses, and primates all lick wounds. [2] Saliva contains tissue factor which promotes the blood clotting mechanism.

  4. Injury in animals - Wikipedia

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    Injury in animals is damage to the body caused by wounding, change in pressure, heat or cold, chemical substances, venoms and biotoxins. Injury prompts an inflammatory response in many taxa of animals ; this prompts wound healing , which may be rapid, as in the Cnidaria .

  5. Injury - Wikipedia

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    Injury is physiological damage to the living tissue of any organism, whether in humans, in other animals, or in plants. Injuries can be caused in many ways, including mechanically with penetration by sharp objects such as teeth or with blunt objects, by heat or cold, or by venoms and biotoxins. Injury prompts an inflammatory response in many ...

  6. Injury in humans - Wikipedia

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    An injury is any physiological damage to living tissue [1] caused by immediate physical stress. Injuries to humans can occur intentionally or unintentionally and may be caused by blunt trauma, penetrating trauma, burning, toxic exposure, asphyxiation, or overexertion. Injuries can occur in any part of the body, and different symptoms are ...

  7. Animal testing - Wikipedia

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    Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals, such as model organisms, in experiments that seek to control the variables that affect the behavior or biological system under study. This approach can be contrasted with field studies in which animals are observed in ...

  8. Neurocysticercosis - Wikipedia

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    Pigs and humans can act as intermediate hosts for the larval form, but humans are the only definitive hosts for the adult tapeworm. The larvae are cystic, fluid-filled sacs containing a tapeworm head (scolex) with four suckers and a double row of hooks, along with a narrow neck and a body made up of hundreds of segments called proglottids. When ...

  9. Animal disease model - Wikipedia

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    An animal model (short for animal disease model) is a living, non-human, often genetic-engineered animal used during the research and investigation of human disease, for the purpose of better understanding the disease process without the risk of harming a human. Although biological activity in an animal model does not ensure an effect in humans ...