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Contusion   /kəntˈuʒən/   Listen
Contusion

noun
1.
An injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration.  Synonym: bruise.
2.
The action of bruising.






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"Contusion" Quotes from Famous Books



... was to transport us to this place, I fell, without any previous warning, senseless on the rocks—and how I escaped with life I can scarcely guess. I was in a stupour for a quarter of an hour; the suffusion of blood at last restored me to my senses—the contusion is great, and my brain confused. ...
— Posthumous Works - of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman • Mary Wollstonecraft



Words linked to "Contusion" :   hit, black eye, ecchymosis, trauma, petechia, striking, harm, injury, mouse, hurt, hitting, bruise, contuse, shiner



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