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Damage to one of the internal organs. Wound or damage to a part of the body not normally visible on the surface of the skin; for example, a person involved in a motor vehicle accident may rupture his spleen and bleed internally without any signs of injury visible on the back or abdomen. Any injury…

An artery which branches from the aorta in the abdomen and leads to the pelvis. branch of the common iliac artery supplying blood to the pelvis, buttocks, external reproductive organs, and the medial side of the thigh.  

Swollen veins inside the anus.  

A haemorrhage which takes place inside the body.  

The part of the ear inside the head, behind the eardrum, containing the semicircular canals, the vestibule and the cochlea. The portion of the ear consisting of the cochlea, which contains the receptors for hearing in the organ of Corti, and the vestibule and semicircular canals, which contain the receptors for static and dynamic equilibrium.…

A condition in which the knee cannot function properly because of a torn meniscus.  

An artery in the neck, behind the external carotid, which gives off the ophthalmic artery and ends by dividing into the anterior and middle cerebral arteries.  

A method of making the heart start beating again by pressing on the heart itself. A surgical procedure performed on the chest to sustain circulation when the heart ceases to beat. In internal cardiac massage, the surgeon accesses the heart through the open rib cage and manually compresses it with their hands.  

A bundle of fibres linking the cerebral cortex and other parts of the brain. A large bidirectional fiber tract connecting the cerebral cortex with the ipsilateral thalamus and sending axons from the cerebral cortex to the brainstem and spinal cord. Fiber bundle within the brain that carries ascending and descending information from and to the…

Loss of blood inside the body, e.g. from a wound in the intestine. Hemorrhage from an internal organ or site, especially the gastrointestinal tract.