physical injury
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphysicalandinjury
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physical
adjective
uk/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/
relating to ...
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injury
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.dʒər.i/us/ˈɪn.dʒər.i/
physical harm or damage to someone's body caused by an accident or ...
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(Definition ofphysicalandinjuryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This testa probably reduced the rate of water loss and protected the embryo fromphysicalinjury.
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The teachers gave higher ratings to the more "innocent" stories and were less approving of stories involvingphysicalinjuryor potential scrapes with the law.
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Thephysicalinjuryand logic of medical diagnoses are thrust into the foreground so that they appear to possess an autonomous existence.
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Her distinction also fails to show why anyone is more responsible for avoidable mental injury than for avoidablephysicalinjury.
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Canadian tort law traditionally has had more difficulty with damage beyond 'concretephysicalinjury'.
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Physicalinjuryand punishment were no longer as acceptable as they had been, particularly in the urban setting.
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Looking beyond thephysicalinjury: posttraumatic stress disorder in children and parents after pediatric traffic injury.
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This strategy was undertaken to examine the contribution of depression in predicting subsequent pain outside the influence of a directphysicalinjury.
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It was consistent with thoughts that a fall would lead tophysicalinjury, and ultimately to the possibility of institutionalization.
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By contrast, the pain ofphysicalinjurydoes not include characteristic judgments in this way.
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These cases included injuries such as bruises, welts, burns, abrasions, lacerations, wounds, cuts, bone and skull fractures, and other evidence ofphysicalinjuryto the child.
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In my reading of the novel's concern with consciousness and unconsciousness, the hidden wound seems to be a signification of psychic as opposed tophysicalinjury.
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Disabusing someone of a threat should result in the disappearance of potentially damaging distress, but simply correcting one's beliefs does not similarly protect againstphysicalinjury.
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Perilymph fistula refers to an abnormal communication between the perilymph space and the middle ear, which may be caused by iatrogenic trauma,physicalinjuryor erosion.
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I really think that he may be in danger of seriousphysicalinjury.
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It is this: is tuberculosis aphysicalinjury?
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The victim of tuberculosis is deserving of even more sympathy than the sufferer fromphysicalinjury.
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If it involves the risk ofphysicalinjury, this is a matter for a specialist in the particular line of physical medicine involved.
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