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CRUSHING INJURY [3 records]

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Record 1 2025-12-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
  • Protection of Farm Animals
  • Pets
CONT

The term "animal crushing" means actual conduct in which one or more living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians [are] purposely crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury...

OBS

The concept of "animal crushing", drawn from United States law, is mostly used in contemporary media to refer to a form of animal cruelty perpetrated by members of violent extremist groups.

PHR

animal crushing video

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
  • Protection des animaux (Agric.)
  • Animaux d'agrément
DEF

Acte dans lequel un ou plusieurs mammifères non humains, oiseaux, reptiles ou amphibiens vivants sont délibérément écrasés, brûlés, noyés, étouffés, empalés ou autrement soumis à des lésions corporelles graves.

OBS

La notion d'«animal crushing», puisée dans le droit des États-Unis, est surtout utilisée dans les médias contemporains pour désigner une forme de cruauté envers les animaux perpétrée par les membres de groupes extrémistes violents.

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-01-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
DEF

An injury... in which the skin and/or [underlying] soft tissues are torn by the crushing and shearing forces produced at impact. Lacerations are characterized by ragged, irregular margins, surrounding contusion, marginal abrasion, tissue bridging in the wound in the direction of the blunt force.

OBS

Abrasion ... with deep structure involvement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)
DEF

Plaie produite par la déchirure et l'attrition de la peau et des tissus sous-jacents. Sa forme est irrégulière, étoilée ou arrondie; ses bords sont amincis, déchiquetés, mâchés ou dentelés.

OBS

Définition d'après SIMEL, 1967, page 74.

OBS

Érosion [...] avec atteinte profonde.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
  • Sistema musculoesquelético (Medicina)
DEF

Traumatismo provocado por desgarramientos bruscos de la piel [...].

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Record 3 1993-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surgery
CONT

The mechanism of injury was a combined anteroposterior crushing force that caused axial disruption of the carpus and the metacarpals and wrist hyperextension that caused the transtriquetral lumate dislocation. Our patient was treated with open reduction and internal fixation with good result.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Chirurgie

Spanish

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