Grievous bodily injury
(b) Grievous bodily injury includes, but is not limited to, any of the following categories of injury: (1) Mutilation or disfigurement. Disfigurement includes permanent facial disfigurement or non-facial scarring that results in permanent restriction of motion; (2) Dismemberment or amputation, including the removal of a limb or other appendage of the body; (3) The loss of important bodily functions or debilitating internal disorder. These terms include: (i) Permanent injury to a vital organ, in any degree; (ii) The total loss or loss of use of any internal organ, (iii) Injury, temporary or permanent, to more than one internal organ; (iv) Permanent brain injury to any degree or with any residual disorder (e.g. epilepsy), and brain or brain stem injury including coma and spinal cord injuries; (v) Paraplegia, quadriplegia, or permanent paralysis or paresis, to any degree; (vi) Blindness or permanent loss, to any degree, of vision, hearing, or sense of smell, touch, or taste; (vii) Any back or neck injury requiring surgery, or any injury requiring joint replacement or any form of prosthesis, or; (viii) Compound fracture of any long bone, or multiple fractures that result in permanent or significant temporary loss of the function of an important part of the body; (4) Injuries likely to require extended hospitalization, including any injury requiring 30 or more consecutive days of in-patient care in an acute care facility, or 60 or more consecutive days of in-patient care in a rehabilitation facility; (5) Severe burns, including any third degree burn over ten percent of the body or more, or any second degree burn over thirty percent of the body or more; (6) Severe electric shock, including ventricular fibrillation, neurological damage, or thermal damage to internal tissue caused by electric shock. (7) Other grievous injuries, including any allegation of traumatically induced disease.