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Sports Injuries - Quality of Injury | 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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