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Abstract
A physical injury caused by exposure of the body to extremely low ambient temperatures that may lead to loss of body parts, or in extreme cases, death. Examples of cold injury are FROSTBITE and CHILBLAINS.
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- Cold Injuries
- Injuries, Cold
- Injury, Cold
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2016
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Cold Injury. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000067390. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000067390
- Cold Injury. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4499376