contusion
[kuh n-too-zhuh n, -tyoo-]
noun
an injury, as from a blow with a blunt instrument, in which the subsurface tissue is injured but the skin is not broken; bruise.
Origin of contusion
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And yet you had suckled that son, though your breast had had to be lanced owing to a contusion.
Plutarch's MoralsPlutarch
Contusion in this region, on the other hand, is not uncommon.
Two horses were killed under him, and he received a contusion in the thigh.
Won by the SwordG.A. Henty
It was at this juncture that he received the contusion, and became for some time senseless.
Soyer's Culinary CampaignAlexis Soyer
There was quite a contusion near one temple and he was bleeding at the nose.
Bound to SucceedAllen Chapman
contusion
noun
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contusion
[kən-tōō′zhən]
n.
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