Minor injuries?

I'm amazed at how many adults recieve "minor injuries". A minor is a young child. Are our A&E full of adults who have scrapped their knees or have pushe lego up their noses. I read about a car crash where the driver recieved minor injuries. What did he get? A chinesse burn??

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Minor Injuries can mean anything from cuts and scratches to a closed fracture. Major injuries mean they need surgery or have an open fracture.

Hi a minor yes means a child but monor injuries can be anything from wasp sting to a small cut.Thats why we call them minor as they are not serious injuries.Major injuries are anything from a compound fracture to a amputation off a limb.

Minor has more than one definition:

mi鈥or鈥?/藞ma瑟n蓹r/ Pronunciation[mahy-ner]
鈥揳djective
1.lesser, as in size, extent, or importance, or being or noting the lesser of two: a minor share.
2.not serious, important, etc.: a minor wound; a minor role.
3.having low rank, status, position, etc.: a minor official.
4.under the legal age of full responsibility.
5.Education. of or pertaining to a field of study constituting a student's minor.
6.Music.
a.(of an interval) smaller by a chromatic half step than the corresponding major interval.
b.(of a chord) having a minor third between the root and the note next above it.
7.of or pertaining to the minority.
8.(initial capital letter) (of two male students in an English public school who have the same surname) being the younger or lower in standing: Jackson Minor sits over here.
鈥搉oun
9.a person under the legal age of full responsibility.
10.a person of inferior rank or importance in a specified group, class, etc.
11.Education.
a.a subject or a course of study pursued by a student, esp. a candidate for a degree, subordinately or supplementarily to a major or principal subject or course.
b.a subject for which less credit than a major is granted in college or, occasionally, in high school.
12.Music. a minor interval, chord, scale, etc.
13.Mathematics. the determinant of the matrix formed by crossing out the row and column containing a given element in a matrix.
14.(initial capital letter) Friar Minor.
15.the minors, Sports. the minor leagues.
鈥搗erb (used without object)
16.to choose or study as a secondary academic subject or course: to major in sociology and minor in art history.
[Origin: 1250鈥?300; ME < L: smaller, less; akin to OE min small, ON minni smaller, Goth minniza younger, Skt m墨n膩ti (he) diminishes, destroys]

鈥擲ynonyms 1. smaller, inferior, secondary, subordinate. 3. petty, unimportant, small. 9. child, adolescent.


In the case of "minor injuries" the meaning of minor is "not serious".