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Descriptor English:   Whiplash Injuries 
Descriptor Spanish:   lesiones por latigazo cervical 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Traumatismos em Chicotada 
Synonyms English:   Injuries, Whiplash
Injury, Whiplash
Whiplash Injury  
Tree Number:   C26.700.500
Definition English:   Hyperextension injury to the neck, often the result of being struck from behind by a fast-moving vehicle, in an automobile accident. (From Segen, The Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992) 
History Note English:   73; was WHIPLASH INJURY 1963-72 
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
BL blood CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced CL classification
CO complications CN congenital
DI diagnosis DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy DT drug therapy
EC economics EM embryology
EN enzymology EP epidemiology
EH ethnology ET etiology
GE genetics HI history
IM immunology ME metabolism
MI microbiology MO mortality
NU nursing PS parasitology
PA pathology PP physiopathology
PC prevention & control PX psychology
RT radiotherapy RH rehabilitation
SU surgery TH therapy
UR urine VE veterinary
VI virology  
Record Number:   15311 
Unique Identifier:   D014911 

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