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Abbreviated injury scale Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries
An integer scale developed by the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine to rate the severity of individual injuries. (NHTSA2)
By the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.Abbreviated injury scale Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
The Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) is an anatomical-based coding system created by the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine to classify and describe the severity of specific individual injuries. AIS is one of the most common anatomic scales for traumatic injuries. The first version of the scale was published in 1969 with major updates in 1976, 1980, 1985, 1990, 1998, 2005, and 2008.
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