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blunt trauma
(redirected from Abdominal Trauma)

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Noun1.blunt trauma - injury incurred when the human body hits or is hit by a large outside object (as a car)
harm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.


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Conventional open surgery carried a high mortality rate with the need for a left thoracotomy, aortic clamping, and heparinisation with extracorporeal bypass in a patient with multi-system injury, including head and abdominal trauma and associated long bone fractures.
Thetrial heard the cause of death was acute peritonitis caused by a ruptured intestine brought on by blunt force abdominal trauma.
But a pathologist's report confirmed David Statham had died from massive chest and abdominal trauma and the other members of his family had died due to severe cranial injuries.
 
 
 
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