Injury

Injury is damage to a biological organism which can be classified on various bases.

Classification

By cause

• Traumatic injury, a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident
• Other injuries from external physical causes, such as radiation injury, burn injury or frostbite
• Injury from infection
• Injury from toxin or as adverse effect of a pharmaceutical drug
• Metabolic injury
  • Complications of diabetes due to hyperglycemia
  • Complications of lysosomal and glycogen storage diseases
• Injury due to autoimmunity
• Injury due to cancer
• Injury secondary to any other disease

By location

• Wound, an injury in which skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). In pathology, it specifically refers to a sharp injury which damages the dermis of the skin.
• Brain injury
• Spinal cord injury
• Nerve injury
• Soft tissue injury
• Cell damage, including direct DNA damage

By activity

• Sports injury
• Occupational injury