Category: T

To move from place to place, e.g., from one country to another.  

The passage of air in and out of a wound in the chest wall. The release of air from a chest wall injury.  

Pathological state caused by trauma. A disease that develops as a consequence of a wound or injury.  

Numerical grading system that combines the Glasgow Coma Scale and measurements of cardiopulmonary function as a gauge of severity of injury and as a predictor of survival after blunt trauma to the head. Each parameter is given a number (high for normal and low for impaired or absent function). Severity of injury is estimated by…

A calculation of the probability that an injured person will survive after serious trauma. It is made on the basis of the patient’s age; the type of trauma (blunt versus penetrating); and the in jury severity score and revised trauma score.  

A bundle of transverse fibers in the ventral portion of the tegmentum of pons.    

Triangular device suspended above a bed to facilitate transferring and positioning the patient; also called a swivel trapeze bar.  

Chalky concretions of the conjunctiva around the limbus. These are associated with vernal conjunctivitis.  

The transverse fibers of the sphincter urethrae muscle.  

Semispinalis capitis, semispinalis cervicis.