contuse

VERB
  1. injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of
    I bruised my knee
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How To Use contuse In A Sentence

  • ObjectiveTo discuss choroidal structural changes and extent of damage in the patients with eyeball contused wound.
  • Giovanni Vigo (c. 1460-1520), surgeon-in-ordinary to Pope Julius II, gunshot wounds were classified as contused, burned, and poisoned, and the last-named, on the supposition that all gunshot wounds were poisoned by powder, were cauterized with red-hot iron or hot oil. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
  • His lips were a contused, shapeless mass, and his mouth was full of blood and broken teeth. MAUKI
  • Jack Randall -- such a jolly chick! you must be introduced to him -- has promised to tie a cord across the pavement at the corner, from the lamp-post to a door-scraper; and we have made a careful estimate that, out of every half-dozen people who pass, six will fall down, four cut their faces more or less arterially, and two contuse their foreheads. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841
  • I like a girl that is not overly self contuse or bitchy. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • No bald Mare my Gammon shall contuse again by one more Toss. The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4
  • Contuse . To injure without breaking the skin; bruise.
  • When the police lifted the towel, the man's face was so badly contused that the police became sick to their stomachs. John W. Whitehead: Helter Skelter: Racism and Murder
  • -- Shoulder atrophy such as the general practitioner commonly meets with, is an affection, more often seen in young animals and it seems to be due to injuries of various kinds which contuse the muscles of the shoulder. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
  • When a bone is broken, or cleft, or contused, or otherwise injured, and when by mistake it has not been discovered, and neither the raspatory nor trepan has been applied as required, but the case has been neglected as if the bone were sound, fever will generally come on if in winter, and in summer the fever usually seizes after seven days. On Injuries Of The Head
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