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blunt trauma
(redirected from Blunt 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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7) Screening tests in the evaluation of blunt abdominal trauma Focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) has become available in the emergency room to exclude intra-abdominal injury.
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