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What is a laceration?
Laceration: a torn and ragged wound or cut
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What is liver laceration?
It means that a part of the liver has been either cut (which would be unusual) or torn, probably do to trauma such as a fall, car accident, etc.
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What is the splenic flexture?
The bend in the colon between the transverse and descending parts. The other flexure (between ascending and transverse) is the hepatic flexure.
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Whats a laceration?
This is a deep cut in the skin where it penetrates the muscle.
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What is a liver laceration?
The liver is a large organ in the right upper part of the abdomen. When people have severe trauma to the abdomen it can rip (the laceration) and cause life threatening bleeding (or bleeding that is...