Health

Stages
Your current health is represented by your character's health stage. There are 12 health stages, with 1 being full health and 12 being dead.

Injuries
Injuries are accumulated as you take damage. Each injury reduces the maximum health state that you can regenerate to. Injuries can be removed with bandages or by getting healed by the Physician. Major injuries will require a large bandage, and will reduce your max regeneration by much more than a minor.

The text of each injury is generated using an adjective and a body part. The exact injury is just for flavor purposes - all minor injuries are equivalent to each other in terms of effect, as are all major.