soft tissue

Surgeon Jahrad Haq, who treated Flintoff, told the documentary the injuries were "very complex" - a mixture of hard and soft tissue injuries, broken teeth, lost teeth and elements of the upper jaw bone that were also fractured and displaced.

Diagnosed with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer affecting soft tissue, Duong has a malignant mass blocking blood flow to his optic nerve.

The shot to the finger, the suit said, caused “extensive soft tissue damage.”

With Betts, team doctors worried about the increased risk of a soft tissue injury given his lingering dehydration and fatigue.

The temperature of the pyroclastic flows that buried Herculaneum and Pompeii was several hundreds of degrees Celsius, hot enough to easily burn and destroy soft tissue.