definition of casualties
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- A casualty in military usage is a person in military service, combatant or non-combatant, who becomes unavailable for duty due to several circumstances, including death, injury, illness, capture and desertion.
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- devastating adjective. › causing ​great ​damage or ​suffering to something or someone: devastating ​criticisms It will have a devastating ​impact on the ​economy. (Definition of devastating from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press).
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Concussion In many cases, a person with a concussion never loses consciousness. The formal medical definition of concussion is a clinical syndrome characterized by immediate and transient alteration in brain function, including alteration of mental status and level of consciousness, resulting from mechanical force or trauma.
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Concussion A concussion is an injury to the brain that results in temporary loss of normal brain function. It usually is caused by a blow to the head. In many cases, there are no external signs of head trauma. Many people assume that concussions involve a loss of consciousness, but that is not true. In many cases, a person with a concussion never loses consciousness. The formal medical definition of concussion is a clinical syndrome characterized by immediate and transient alteration in brain function, including alteration of mental status and level of consciousness, resulting from mechanical force or trauma.
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- Definition: Mortality is incidence of death in a population. It is measured in various ways, often by the probability that a randomly selected individual in a population at some date and location would die in some period of time. Contrast to morbidity. Terms related to Mortality: 1  Morbidity. 2  Reinsurance.  Indemnity.
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- Wounds (Definition). Wounds is also known as Injuries and wounds. A wound is a condition in which a person has some trauma to part of his body in which the surface of the skin or some other organ has been broken open. Wounds include clean cuts, jagged cuts, avulsions (ripping away) of flesh, punctures, bites, etc...
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- Civilians who find themselves on the battlefield are, in most cases, there by accident or at least unintentionally. Wounds, death, and destruction accompany combat. People will be wounded and perhaps killed.
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- Casualty (person) - Military usage. 1  In military usage, a casualty is a person in service killed in action, killed by disease, disabled by injuries, disabled by psychological trauma, captured, deserted, or missing, but not someone who sustains injuries which do not prevent them from fighting.
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List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll Main articles: List of wars by death toll and List of genocides by death toll. These figures of one million or more deaths include the deaths of civilians from diseases, famine, etc., as well as deaths of soldiers in battle and massacres and genocide.
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casualtynoun uk â / ËkÃ¦Ê.ju.Él.ti / usâ / ËkÃ¦Ê.ju.Él.ti / us ​ /ˈkæʒ·u·əl·ti, ˈkæʒ·əl·ti/. › a person hurt or killed in a war or other destructive event, or something prevented by an event: The number of casualties from Sunday's tsunami continues to rise. New team uniforms were a casualty of the budget cuts.
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The psychology of disaster What is a disaster? One definition is “A disaster is the tragedy of a natural or human-made hazard (a hazard is a situation which poses a level of threat to life, health, property, or environment) that negatively affects society or environment.
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Casualty insurance Casualty insurance is mainly liability coverage of an individual or organization for negligent acts or omissions. However, the term has also been used for property insurance, [citation needed] aviation insurance, boiler and machinery insurance, and glass [clarification needed] and crime insurance.
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- Suicide is defined as a death resulting from the use of force against oneself when a preponderance of the evidence indicates that the use of force was intentional. These references provide more information about the definition of suicide: Farberow, N.L. (1980).
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- ACCIDENT - an unplanned event that causes personnel injury or illness, or property damage. ARMY ACCIDENT - an accident that results in injury / illness to either army or non-Army personnel, and/or damage to Army or non-Army property as a result of Army operations (caused by the Army).
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- An accident is any unexpected or unplanned event that causes a loss of production, harm to people, damage to property or extended costs [Grayson, 2001]. Many companies also include harm to the environment where resources are required as a loss.
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Casualties of Battle In general terms, casualties of Civil War battles included 20% dead and 80% wounded. Of the soldiers who were wounded, about one out of seven died from his wounds. Over 2/3 of the estimated 620,000 men who gave their lives in the Civil War died from disease, not from battle.
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CASUALTY Noun. 1. victim-an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance. unfortunate, unfortunate person-a person who suffers misfortune. injured party, casualty-someone injured or killed in an accident. casualty-someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement.
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Definition of 'damage' Damage consists of the unpleasant effects that something has on a person, situation, or type of activity. Incidents of this type cause irreparable damage to relations with the community. Adhering to the new rules meant inflicting serious damage on motor racing. If a court of law awards damages to someone, it orders money to be paid to them by a person who has damaged their reputation or property, or who has injured them.
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- devastating adjective (VERY HARMFUL). C2 ​causing a lot of ​damage or ​destruction: If the ​bomb had ​exploded in the ​main ​shopping ​area, it would have been devastating. The ​drought has had devastating ​consequences/​effects.
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Casualties of War 1989 Casualties Of War is a good war drama, but its the best out there, at times the script feels strained and it seems that they tried to make nearly every seen very overly sentimental, more than they needed to be.
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wound 1 wound. n. 1. Injury to a part or tissue of the body, especially one caused by physical trauma and characterized by tearing, cutting, piercing, or breaking of the tissue. 2.
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damage Definition of damage. 1 : loss or harm resulting from injury to person, property, or reputation flood damage sustained severe damage to her knee. 2 damages plural : compensation in money imposed by law for loss or injury The judge awarded them $5,000 in damages.
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- Princeton's WordNet (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty (noun). a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events.
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casualtynoun uk â / ËkÃ¦Ê.ju.Él.ti / usâ / ËkÃ¦Ê.ju.Él.ti / casualty noun (BADLY AFFECTED) › [ C ] a person or thing that suffers as a result of something else happening: She lost her job in 2011, a casualty of the recession. The first casualty of the reorganization will be the bus service, which will be stopped altogether.
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casualty casualty - Legal Definition. n. 1  An individual or property that has been destroyed, injured, lost, or otherwise made ineffective. 2  The harm to an individual or property as a result of a sudden, unexpected, or unusual event.  An accident, especially one that is fatal or serious.
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Definition of 'wound' (waʊnd 1  ) Wound is the past tense and past participle of wind2 2. 2  A wound is damage to part of your body, especially a cut or a hole in your flesh, which is caused by a gun, knife, or other weapon. 3  If a weapon or something sharp wounds you, it damages your body. 4  The wounded are people who are wounded.