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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
double crush syndrome | 15 |
crush syndrome | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 síndrome de Bywaters, síndroma de esmagamento, síndroma de Bywaters. (various references) síndrome de Bywater, síndrome de aplastamiento. (various references) crush syndrom (compression syndrome), krossyndrom, krosskada. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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