Sentences with phrase «open fractures where»

The severity of an orthopedic injury can range from a bit of swelling and tenderness to muscle, tendon, or ligament tears, joint sprains, or even compound, open fractures where the fractured bone actually punctures the skin.

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As this water moves through rocks, it dissolves salt compounds and pushes through fractures in the overlying ice to form reservoirs closer the moon's surface, where it is expelled into space when the outermost layer of the crust cracks open and the resulting depressurization of these reservoirs causes water vapor and ice particles to shoot out in the observed plumes.

Dogs with cardiovascular instability or who have fractured ribs, pleural space disease, open wounds, thoracic tumors, flail chest — an injury following blunt force trauma, where part of the rib cage becomes detached — or other cardiac or respiratory distress should not receive coupage.

Open or compound fractures where the bone may be seen exiting a wound, should receive medical attention immediately.