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UK
/kəntjˈuːʒən/
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[ US /kənˈtuʒən/ ]
[ US /kənˈtuʒən/ ]
NOUN
- an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration
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the action of bruising
the bruise resulted from a contusion
How To Use contusion In A Sentence
- Patient adverse events related to patient handling and movement include pain and injury (e.g., falls, contusions, and skin tears).
- They generally torrefy it in the Embers, so strip off the Bark from the Root, beating it to a Consistence fit to spread, so lay it on the griev'd Part; which both cleanses a fowl Ulcer; and after Scarrification, being apply'd to a Contusion, or Swelling, draws forth the Pain, and reduces the Part to its pristine State of Health, as I have often seen effected. A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: Together with the Present State Thereof. And A Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians. Giving a Particular Account of T
- Los Angeles also was short-handed, playing without center Chris Kaman, the league's third-leading rebounder at 13.9, who sat out with a left shin contusion. USATODAY.com
- Objective To investigate the role of protease-antiprotease imbalance in pulmonary contusion after the chest impact trauma in the rabbits.
- Gangrene, as a consequence of contusions or of hemorrhage or of an impediment to the circulation, caused by unskillfully applied apparatus, must not be overlooked among the occasional incidents; nor must lockjaw, which is not an uncommon occurrence. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
- The working diagnosis at this point is a "contusion" to his thumb. Major League Baseball
- The majority of injuries in a primary care setting are soft tissue injuries (sprains, strains, and contusions).
- Traumatic injuries include incisions, gunshot and sword wounds, scalds and burns, contusions, sprains or animal stings and bites.
- You're telling me, Doctor Bradley, that these... blemishes... this mark I can hardly see, that is your idea of a contusion ? THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
- A slight degree of serous effusion into the joint (_hydrarthrosis_) often persists for some time, and tuberculous affections of joints not infrequently date from a contusion. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.