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Wounds and Injuries > Cold Injury

Preferred term

Cold Injury  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Scope note

  • 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.

History note

  • 2016

In other languages

  • kylmävamma

    Finnish

  • kylmän aiheuttama vamma
  • kylmän aiheuttamat vammat
  • kylmävammat
  • kylmävaurio
  • kylmävauriot
  • Köldskada

    Swedish

  • Kylskada

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000067390

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