| psychology, industrial | The branch of applied psychology concerned with the application of psychologic principles and methods to industrial problems including selection and training of workers, working conditions, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| industrial deafness | Synonym: acoustic trauma deafness. (05 Mar 2000) |
| industrial disease | A morbid condition resulting from exposure to an agent discharged by a commercial enterprise into the environment. Compare: occupational disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| industrial hygiene | Practices adopted by an industrial concern to minimise occupation-related disease and/or injury. (05 Mar 2000) |
| industrial microbiology | The study, utilization, and manipulation of those microorganisms capable of economically producing desirable substances or changes in substances, and the control of undesirable microorganisms. (12 Dec 1998) |
| industrial oils | Oils which are used in industrial or commercial applications. (12 Dec 1998) |
| industrial psychiatry | The application of the principles of psychiatry to problems in business and industry. (05 Mar 2000) |
| industrial psychology | The application of the principles of psychology to problems in business and industry. (05 Mar 2000) |
| industrial waste | Worthless, damaged, defective, superfluous or effluent material from industrial operations. It represents an ecological problem and health hazard. (12 Dec 1998) |
| fungicides, industrial | Chemicals that kill or inhibit the growth of fungi in agricultural applications, on wood, plastics, or other materials, in swimming pools, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| abbreviated injury scale | Classification system for assessing impact injury severity developed and published by the american association for automotive medicine. It is the system of choice for coding single injuries and is the foundation for methods assessing multiple injuries or for assessing cumulative effects of more than one injury. These include maximum ais (mais), injury severity score (iss), and probability of death score (pods). (12 Dec 1998) |
| axillary nerve injury | <neurology> A condition involving dysfunction of the axillary nerve which normally supplies the deltoid and teres minor muscles and sensation to the lateral aspect of the shoulder. This condition is a type of peripheral neuropathy that may manifest as the result of a variety of disease processes or injuries. Conditions associated with axillary nerve dysfunction include mononeuritis multiplex, fracture of the humerus, abduction injury to the shoulder, pressure to the armpit from a cast, splint or crutches. Symptoms include numbness over the outer portion of the shoulder, shoulder weakness and difficulty lifting arm or objects over your head. An EMG, nerve conduction study or muscle biopsy can be helpful in making the diagnosis. Recovery is generally spontaneous if the underlying cause can be corrected and shoulder mobility is preserved. Corticosteroid injections may be indicated in some instances. (02 Jan 1998) |
| blast injury | Tearing of lung tissue or rupture of abdominal viscera without external injury, as by the force of an explosion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| brain injury | Acute injuries to the brain, general or unspecified. (12 Dec 1998) |
| reperfusion injury | Functional, metabolic, or structural changes, including necrosis, in ischemic tissues thought to result from reperfusion to ischemic areas of the tissue. The most common instance is myocardial reperfusion injury. (12 Dec 1998) |