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Quality of Injury
Term Also Known As Description
acute   Strong, sharp, intense or severe; sudden; fast; short-term; or first phase, but not chronic.
benign   An illness, condition, disease or tumor that does not invade adjacent tissue or spread throughout the body, and is not recurrent, progressive or dangerous to health.
chronic   Frequent, continuous, slowly-developing, prolonged, or long-term; not acute.
malignant   Aggressive, severe, progressively worse, and/or dangerous uncontrolled cell growth that can spread to, invade, and actively destroy normal surrounding tissue or other parts of the body.
referred pain   Referred pain occurs when a sensation of physical distress or injury is noticed in a place that is not where the original sensation began.

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