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spinal cord injury (medicine)


spinal cord injury


Any injury to the spinal cord via blunt or penetrating trauma. Extreme flexion or extension (particularly in the neck) of the spine can result in traction on the spinal cord with subsequent injury and the development of neurologic symptoms.

See: neurologic symptoms.