Injury or Poisoning
cold injury
cold in·ju·ry
Subclass of:
Wounds and Injuries
Definitions related to cold injury:
  • A physical injury caused by exposure of the body to extremely low ambient temperatures that may lead to loss of body parts, or in extreme cases, death. Examples of cold injury are FROSTBITE and CHILBLAINS.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of exposure to low temperatures, with or without disruption of structural continuity.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Exposure to cold may cause decreased body temperature (hypothermia) and focal soft-tissue injury. Tissue injury without freezing includes frostnip, immersion foot, and chilblains.
    Merck Manuals
    Merck & Co., Inc., 2025
  • Exposure to cold can produce various injuries that occur as a result of the human inability to adapt to cold. These injuries can be divided into localized injury to a body part or parts (peripheral cold injuries), generalized cooling of the entire body (systemic hypothermia), or a combination of both.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2025
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