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CRUSH SYNDROME

Specialty Definition: CRUSH SYNDROME

DomainDefinition

Health

Severe systemic manifestation of trauma and ischemia involving soft tissues, principally skeletal muscle, due to prolonged severe crushing. It leads to increased permeability of the cell membrane and to the release of potassium, enzymes, and myoglobin from within cells. Ischemic renal dysfunction secondary to hypotension and diminished renal perfusion results in acute tubular necrosis and uremia. (references)

Medicine

Symptoms: pain where trauma has occureed, thirst, nausea, shock. . . Pathology: injured muscles, loss of pigments. Kidney pigmentary casts occluding tubules with degeneration of tubular epith elium. Source: European Union. (references)
 Myoglobinuria and renal impairment with shock following massive muscle damage. Source: European Union. (references)

Public Administration

Serious medical condition of a person entrapped under debris, his body or limbs crushed under heavy slabs or beams causing extensive muscle compression, circulatory oedema and, particularly, kidney damage, necessitating careful disentrapment and expert medical care. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CRUSH SYNDROME

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

double crush syndrome

15

crush syndrome

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CRUSH SYNDROME

Language Translations for "CRUSH SYNDROME"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

crushsyndrom (compression syndrome), crush syndrome, knusningssyndrom. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

crush-syndroom, crush syndroom (compression syndrome), crush syndrome. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kompressio-oireyhtymä (compression syndrome). (various references)

   

French

  

crush syndrome, crush injury, syndrome de crush, syndrome de Bywater, syndrome d'écrasement. (various references)

   

German

  

Crush-Syndrom, Verschüttungssyndrom. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σύνδρομο σύνθλιψης, σύνδρομο συνθλίψεως, σύνδρομο του Bywater. (various references)

   

Italian

  

Crush syndrome (compression syndrome), sindrome di Bywater, sindrome da schiacciamento, sindrome da compressione (compression syndrome). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ushcray yndromesay

   

Portuguese

  

síndrome de Bywaters, síndroma de esmagamento, síndroma de Bywaters. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

síndrome de Bywater, síndrome de aplastamiento. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

crush syndrom (compression syndrome), krossyndrom, krosskada. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CRUSH SYNDROME

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-h-m-n-o-r-r-s-s-u-y"

-4 letters: chorussed, consumers, crumhorns, cynosures, enshrouds, syndromes, uncrossed.

-5 letters: chorused, choruses, chousers, churners, consumed, consumer, consumes, cornuses, coursers, crumhorn, crunodes, crushers, cynosure, decorums, dourness, ecdysons, enshroud, hocussed, hounders, mourners, muchness, mucrones, munchers, onrushes, resounds, rondures, rounders, scorners, scourers, sounders, synchros, syndrome, unhorsed, unhorses, unrhymed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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