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Conditions›Wounds

Wounds(Injuries and wounds)

A wound is a condition in which a person has some trauma to part of his body in which the surface of the skin or some other organ has been broken open. Wounds include clean cuts, jagged cuts, avulsions (ripping away) of flesh, punctures, bites, etc...

Dr. Geoffrey Rutledgereviewed this

Internal Medicine 39 years experience

How long it usually lasts:

Medium-term (lasts weeks to months)

How common is it?

Very common

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