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  1. Piercing and Tattoos 
    https://medlineplus.gov/piercingandtattoos.html
    Tattoos and piercings are popular forms of body art that can be associated with serious health risks. Read this before getting new ink or piercings. ... Piercings and tattoos are body decorations that go back to ancient times. Body piercing involves making a ...
  2. Easy-to-Read Health Information 
    https://medlineplus.gov/all_easytoread.html
    ... Disease Prevention and Health Promotion) Also in Spanish Piercing and Tattoos Tattoos and Permanent Make-Up (Food ...
  3. NLM Digital Collections - Medical statistics in World War II 
    Publication: Washington, D.C. : Office of the Surgeon General, Dept. of the Army : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1975
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/7607981
    ... 1 116 22 Instruments or objects, cutting or piercing 1,617 86 1,631 23 Instruments or ... 0.01 59 Instruments or objects, cutting or piercing 0.16 0.10 0.16 60 Instruments ...
  4. NLM Digital Collections - The homoeopathic domestic medicine 
    Publication: Philadelphia : F.E. Boericke, [1887]
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101493017
    ... and is then described as a violent, screwing, piercing, bursting, or tearing pain, sometimes attended Avith great ... indicated by rending and burning or lancinating and piercing pains, generally lateral, sometimes extending to the teeth ...
  5. NLM Digital Collections - The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey 
    Publication: London : Printed by Th. Cotes and R. Young, anno 1634
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/2393053R
    ... of the fattc hinders the cold aire from piercing in , and alfo forbiddes the di/fiparion of ... needle,chorne, or pen-knife ? or great and piercing cold, which is hurtfull to the wounds, principally ...
  6. NLM Digital Collections - A series of anatomical plates : with references and physiological comments, illustrating the .... 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Carey and Hart for G.N. Loomis, 1843
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61121200R
    ... artery then changes its direction, and runs upwards, piercing the cranial attachment of the splenius and trapezius, ... femoral: on the right side it is seen piercing the fascia lata, and running outwards to the ...
  7. NLM Digital Collections - An American text-book of surgery : for practitioners and students 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Saunders, 1892
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/101598520
    ... least resistance the disease reaches the skin, the piercing of which com- pletes the formation of the ... eyeball or gain access through the nose by piercing the cribriform plate of the ethmoid, while gunshot ...
  8. Perichondritis 
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001253.htm
    ... to the ear due to: Ear surgery Ear piercing (especially piercing of the cartilage) Contact sports Trauma to the side of the head Ear piercing through the cartilage is probably the major risk ...
  9. NLM Digital Collections - Human anatomy (Volume 1) 
    Publication: Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1849
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/61121170RX1
    ... in front of the PECTORALIS MAJOR. 385 humerus, piercing the coraco-brachialis and then lying between the ... the pos- terior arch of the vertebra. After piercing the ligament (posterior occipito-atloidean) connecting the atlas ...
  10. NLM Digital Collections - Health at home, or, Hall's family doctor : showing how to invigorate and preserve health, ... 
    Publication: Hartford, Conn. : Betts, 1874
    resource.nlm.nih.gov/63580050R
    ... stock or tree, so the little lacteal fibres piercing through the intestines suck up little particles of ... smoke; in case of splinters or rusty rails piercing the flesh and causing pain, fever, and irritation, ...
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