Contracting A Splinter
Generally when one contracts a splinter, they will feel initial pain as the sharp object makes its initial penetration through the body. Through this penetration, the object cuts through the cutaneous layer of the skin, and settles in the subcutaneous layer of the skin, and can even penetrate further down, breaking the sub-cutaneous layer, and settling in muscle tissue, or even bone. Some splinters will remain inter, or unmoving, yet most will continue to migrate through the body, further damaging its surroundings.
A popular belief is that once a splinter is contracted, the effects are only minor, yet according to the U.S. Census, in one year, there were 1,709 reported instances of eye injury due to splinters, causing workers to miss at least one day of work. Many splinters can come from biological sources such as animals and other objects.
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