Other potential risk factors include mechanical trauma and exposure to immunotoxins.

"Any sensations you may have are merely the result of mechanical trauma, the bite."

For the ill effects of bruises and other mechanical trauma, after Arnica.

"But it now seems that injury is literally a mechanical trauma to the muscle fibers," he said.

Somehow she didn't think she was seeing mechanical trauma.

"Superior limbic keratoconjuctivitis" is thought to be caused by mechanical trauma.

For sports and other recreational activities, many different gloves are used for protection, generally against mechanical trauma.

Often employs shrapnel to inflict harm by mechanical trauma.

The causes of runner's diarrhea remain under debate, although several theories include ischemia and mechanical trauma.

"Superficially, it resembles mechanical trauma, a crush injury from an automobile or truck.

The repetitive nature of these types of activities cause mechanical trauma to the red blood cells causing hemolysis.

Mechanical trauma occurs in the form of friction, pressure, abrasions, lacerations and contusions.

Perhaps the most common cause is simple mechanical trauma, and allied to this, poor vulval and vaginal lubrication.

Eicosanoid biosynthesis begins when a cell is activated by mechanical trauma, cytokines, growth factors or other stimuli.

Mechanical trauma of any sort-an auto injury, a factory accident-almost always had some component of crushing.

Mechanical trauma to the inner ear can lead to varying degrees of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss as well as vertigo.

Mechanical trauma, e.g. caused by a sharp edge on a denture, or a broken tooth, may cause white patches which appear very similar to leukoplakia.

Mechanical trauma burnishes the bone, causing ischemia by crushing blood vessels and seeds micro-organisms into the tissues.

Mechanical trauma causes elevated PCT levels, the degree of which depends on the severity of the injury.

Ear canal injuries can come from firecrackers and other explosives, and mechanical trauma from placement of foreign bodies into the ear.

Caput A caput succedaneum is caused by the mechanical trauma of the initial portion of scalp pushing through a narrowed cervix.

Close examination demonstrated the scalp hairs were very brittle, coarse, wiry in texture, and broke off quite easily with mechanical trauma such as combing and brushing.

Even though the pathophysiology remains unclear, it is thought that mechanical trauma from tight upper lids or loose redundant conjunctiva could lead to the disruption of normal epithelium.

Current theories include mechanical trauma resulting from cerebrospinal fluid pulsation, elongation of ectactic penetrating blood vessels, and abnormal vascular permeability leading to increased fluid exudation.