Injury or Poisoning
sprain
sprain [ spreyn ]
Definitions related to sprain:
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A stretched or torn ligament.Harvard Dictionary of Health TermsHarvard Medical Publishing, 2011
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A stretching or tearing of a ligament.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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A sprain is a stretching or tearing of ligaments - the tough bands of fibrous tissue that connect two bones together in your joints. The most common location for a sprain is in your ankle.Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
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Sprain, overstretching or tearing of fibres in one or more of the ligaments that support a joint, caused by forced movement beyond their range. Symptoms include sudden severe pain, then swelling around the joint, tenderness, stiffness, and often black-and-blue marks as a result of bleeding into...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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