{"id":1258,"date":"2023-12-26T20:49:51","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T20:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2023-12-26T20:50:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T20:50:44","slug":"injury-its-classification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/2023\/12\/26\/injury-its-classification\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury &#038; Its Classification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Section 44 Indian Penal Code:<\/strong> An injury is any harm whatever illegally caused to any person in body, mind, reputation and property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Medical Definition:<\/strong> A wound or injury is break in continuation of any of the tissues of living body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mechanical Injury or wounds <\/strong>are injury produced by physical violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Trauma<\/b>: Injury or wound produced in living body by application of external force or violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Classification<\/strong> : Injury can be classified under three main categories-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">A.Medical<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>1.Physical or Mechanical<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>a) Due to blunt force<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Abrasions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contusions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lacerations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fractures &amp; dislocations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>b) Due to Sharp force<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incised wounds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chop wounds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stab wounds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>c) Due to Firearms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firearm wounds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blast injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">2.Thermal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>a) Due to cold<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frostbite<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Immersion foot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trench foot<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>b) Due to heat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scalds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">3.Chemical<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>corrosive acid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>corrosive alkalis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">4.Explosion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>caused by explosion of boiler or pressure vessels in industries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">5.Miscellaneous<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>electricity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>lightening<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>X-rays<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radioactive substances<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-x-large-font-size\">B.Legal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simple<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grievous<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dangerous<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-x-large-font-size\">C.Medicolegal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suicide<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Homicide<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accident<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fabricated<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Self inflicted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defense<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Antemortem<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Postmortem<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section 44 Indian Penal Code: An injury is any harm whatever illegally caused to any person in body, mind, reputation and property. Medical Definition: A wound or injury is break in continuation of any of the tissues of living body. Mechanical Injury or wounds are injury produced by physical violence. Trauma: Injury or wound produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-notes-for-exams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/1259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kankarbagh.com\/FMT-IGIMS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}