mangled extremity

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And that made it all the more terrible to awaken to her scarred, mangled extremity, which now required mechanical reinforcement.

For this purpose, other classification systems, like Mangled Extremity Severity score (MESS) and Limb Salvage Index (LSI) have been devised.

The trauma surgery chief at Boston Medical Center said: "We see patients like this, with mangled extremities, but we don't see 16 of them at the same time, and we don't see patients from blast injuries."