What's the difference between concussion and icequake?

Concussion


Definition:

  • (n.) A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision of two bodies.
  • (n.) A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain.
  • (n.) The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
  • (2) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
  • (3) Leukotrienes may play a role in the early inflammatory response following concussive ocular injuries.
  • (4) Fifteen injuries resulted from direct penetration of a vessel and three were concussion or blast injuries.
  • (5) In American football, however, more than 4,500 former NFL players sued their league for downplaying the dangers of concussion, and last year there was an out-of-court settlement for around £500m.
  • (6) Fifty per cent of the patients involved suffered a blunt head or brain injury, the others a brain concussion or space-occupying haemorrhage.
  • (7) 55 patients had an RT test performed 1-5 days after concussion.
  • (8) This study presents a new device for producing experimental, concussive head injury together with a detailed description of biomechanical features of fluid percussion brain injury in the cat.
  • (9) The value of the P300 evoked potential as a measure of cerebral concussion was studied in 20 patients with minor head injury and compared with the data from 20 normal subjects.
  • (10) Analysis of the response curves over time suggested two processes: an improvement in the concussed group and a slowing in the control group.
  • (11) For a guy that played linebacker for 20 years, somewhere in there he would've had a concussion."
  • (12) The Chiefs lost key running back Jamaal Charles to a suspected concussion early but it did not appear to affect KC as Alex Smith threw four touchdown passes and Knile Davis ran for a score to help the Chiefs to a 38-10 lead early in the third quarter of the wild card game.
  • (13) Spinal cord injuries were classified as concussions if they met three criteria: 1) spinal trauma immediately preceded the onset of neurological deficits; 2) neurological deficits were consistent with spinal cord involvement at the level of injury; and 3) complete neurological recovery occurred within 72 hours after injury.
  • (14) These concomitant lesions comprise the perilymph fistula syndrome (PLFS) with a unique profile of neurological, perceptual, and cognitive deficits resembling a post-concussion injury.
  • (15) • Parts two and three to follow online on Saturday and in Sunday's Observer The reminder card now handed out by Peter Robinson, about recognising concussion in rugby union.
  • (16) Post-concussion symptoms were more frequent in women, in those injured by falls, and in those who blamed their employers or large impersonal organisations for their accidents.
  • (17) In general, sprains and strains account for 40% of injuries, contusions 25%, fractures 10%, concussions 5% and dislocations 15%.
  • (18) Our method of testing detects no lingering or permanent change after a single concussion.
  • (19) Forty-four consecutive patients with concussion for whom a medico-legal report had been written were followed up for 3-4 years after their accidents.
  • (20) Using slow motion filmstrips of boxing ring knockouts, we established a grading system for concussion and duplicated these grades in nonanesthetized rats.

Icequake


Definition:

  • (n.) The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.

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