Answer
The following injuries are the possible causes of Jimmy's signs:
1. Inability to open mouth:
Cause: damage to mandible,and temporomandibular joint
2. Black eye:
Cause: injury to ridge over supraorbital margin
3. Broken nose:
Cause: damage to nasal septum; injury to vomer, septal cartilage, perpendicular plate of the ethmoid,
and injury to nasal bones.
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4. Broken cheek
Cause: fracture of the zygomatic arch
5. Broken upper jaw
Cause ; fracture of the maxilla
6, Damaged eye socket:
Cause: fracture of parts of the following bones: frontal, sphenoid, ethmoid, palatine, zygomatic, lacrimal
and maxilla
7. Punctured lung:
Damage to thoracic vertebrae, and /or broken ribs which have punctured the lung.
