192.735. Definitions.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Definitions.

192.735. As used in sections 192.735 to 192.745, unless the contextclearly indicates otherwise, the following terms shall mean:

(1) "Department", the department of health and senior services;

(2) "Head injury" or "traumatic head injury", a sudden insult or damageto the brain or its coverings, not of a degenerative nature. Such insult ordamage may produce an altered state of consciousness and may result in adecrease of one or more of the following: mental, cognitive, behavioral orphysical functioning resulting in partial or total disability. Cerebralvascular accidents, aneurisms and congenital deficits are specificallyexcluded from this definition;

(3) "Spinal cord injury", an injury that occurs as a result of trauma,which may involve spinal vertebral fracture, and where the injured personsuffers two or more of the following effects either immediately or withinforty-eight hours of injury:

(a) Effects on the sensory system including numbness, tingling or lossof sensation in the body or in one or more extremities;

(b) Effects on the motor system including weakness or paralysis in oneor more extremities;