injury vs dislocation

dislocation vs injury

injury and dislocation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
injury	Yes	No	No	No
dislocation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dislocation is a hyponym of injury; that is, dislocation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than injury:

injury: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
dislocation: a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)

Other hyponyms of injury include brain damage, birth trauma, blast trauma, bleeding, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, blunt trauma, bruise, contusion, bump, burn, electric shock, break, fracture, cryopathy, frostbite, intravasation, penetrating injury, penetrating trauma, pinch, rupture, bite, insect bite, sting, strain, whiplash, whiplash injury, wale, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

injury (noun)	dislocation (noun)
wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted	the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage	an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
an accident that results in physical damage or hurt	a displacement of a part (especially a bone) from its normal position (as in the shoulder or the vertebral column)
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

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