##  [Pressure Injury Development](/index.php/pressure-injury-development) 

  ##  [Pressure Injury Development](https://health.quantumdictionary.io/pressure-injury-development-0) 

  

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Definition

The gradual process by which sustained or repetitive external pressure, often combined with shear and microclimate factors, reduces local tissue perfusion and oxygenation and initiates progressive soft‑tissue ischemia, cell death and structural breakdown at a defined anatomical site.