minor injury
collocation in Englishmeaningsofminorandinjury
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minor
adjective
uk/ˈmaɪ.nər/us/ˈmaɪ.nɚ/
having little importance, influence, or effect, especially when compared with other things of the ...
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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 ofminorandinjuryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Attacks may occur spontaneously or be precipitated by surgery,minorinjuryor intercurrent illness.
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This may, in part, be attributable to a failure to recognize that distress is as common after sufferingminorinjuryas it is after severe injury.
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Whether it is chemical warfare, nuclear warfare, or theminorinjuryof aircraft noise, it must be brought under control.
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Information on the number of nurses trained to deliverminorinjuryand assessment services is not collected centrally.
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There are not only accident and emergency departments, but nurse-ledminorinjurycare centres and one-stop primary care centres, and walk-in centres are being developed.
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Accidents resulting inminorinjuryand not involving the movement of a train, eg.
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If he has aminorinjury, such as a bleeding eyelid, then the instructions are to play on it.
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All known conversions of accident and emergency units tominorinjuryunits have always been a precursor to the hospital becoming a major casualty.
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There are walk-in centres,minorinjuryunits, community care centres and proposed diagnostic and treatment centres, all of which have little or no night provision.
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It seems most unsatisfactory that a person who has aminorinjuryor a minor ailment should be referred to his private doctor.
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The accident and emergency service would be reduced to a daytime-onlyminorinjuryservice.
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The services planned for those centres include consultants out-patient clinics, pathology and investigative services, physiotherapy, chiropody, counselling and psychiatric services, andminorinjuryfacilities.
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It is aminorinjuryof the kind that we do not generally take to doctors.
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What is to happen to a man carried in, having had aminorinjurylate at night?
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The member of the public might have aminorinjuryand break his wrist.
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A nurse came to see me about a situation that she had discovered from a patient who was in hospital for someminorinjury.
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Nine of the men concerned suffered onlyminorinjuryor shock.
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Those accidents cause thousands of people severe orminorinjuryeach year — either way it is extremely uncomfortable for those people.
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What miner is there who, for someminorinjury, at some time or other, has not received compensation?
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That does not include people who are off work for the odd day or two because ofminorinjury.
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