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Type Words
Synonyms bruise
Type of trauma, harm, hurt, injury
Has types ecchymosis, shiner, black eye, mouse, petechia
Type Words
Type of hit, striking, hitting
Derivation contuse


the bruise resulted from a contusion.

Examples of contusion

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He had an MRI on Friday morning which showed no damage except for the contusion.
From the sacbee.com
Svatos has been out with a chest contusion but has skated with the team of late.
From the denverpost.com
It was announced that he has a left elbow contusion and is listed as day to day.
From the stltoday.com
The Cubs said he suffered a contusion to the cheekbone and a cut under the eye.
From the dailyherald.com
Ducks winger Bobby Ryan did not play the third period because of a hip contusion.
From the ocregister.com
Jones missed last week with a lung contusion suffered against Arizona on Nov. 15.
From the post-gazette.com
The Oakland pitcher was hospitalized with a skull fracture and brain contusion.
From the sfgate.com
Kaman missed a game with a left shin contusion before coming down with the flu.
From the sportingnews.com
Ulnar-nerve contusion THAT.Something fairly important intervened to prevent it.
From the orlandosentinel.com
More examples
  • Bruise: an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration
  • The action of bruising; "the bruise resulted from a contusion"
  • A bruise, also called a contusion, is a type of relatively minor hematoma of tissue in which capillaries and sometimes venules are damaged by trauma, allowing blood to seep into the surrounding interstitial tissues. ...
  • A wound, such as a bruise, in which the skin is not broken; often having broken blood vessels and discolouration
  • (Contusions) (more commonly known as a bruise) - caused by blunt force trauma that damages tissues under the skin
  • (contusions) Microscopic or visible hemorrhages into tissue; a bruise. Following head injury, contusions occur more often in frontal and temporal poles of the brain.
  • Distinct area of swollen brain tissue mixed with blood released from broken blood vessels.
  • A bruise, an injury of a part without a break in the skin.
  • Edematous brain lesion containing punctuate parenchymal hemorrhages on the surface of the brain that may extend bidirectionally into the white matter and the subdural and subarachnoid spaces; occur at the site of impact (coup contusion) with direct trauma and at a site opposite to the site of ...