Concussion (medical condition): Brain injury causing loss of consciousness and bruising of the brain.
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Concussion: (1) A violent shaking or jarring. (2) An injury of a soft structure, as the brain, resulting from a blow or violent shaking. SYN: commotio. [L. concussio, fr. con- cutio, pp. -cussus, to shake violently]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Concussion: injury to the brain caused by a blow; usually resulting in loss of consciousness.
Source: WordNet 2.1
Concussion (medical condition): See Concussion (disease information).
»Introduction: Concussion
»Symptoms of Concussion
»Treatments for Concussion
Concussion: Concussion is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:
Concussion (symptom): Type of Syncope.
These medical disease topics may be related to Concussion:
Source - WordNet 2.1
Source: CRISP
The following list attempts to classify Concussion into categories where each line is subset of the next.
Source: WordNet 2.1
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