Any violent blow

Usage examples of concussion.

During the fourth quarter on Saturday, the Bruins freshman cornerback was carted off the field with a possible concussion.

Rattled by the drumroll concussion, shaken bone from bone by the booming reports as the hills rocked and slammed under punishment, Jieret scarcely knew whether the crossbolt ripped over his head, or if wood, feather, and forge-sharpened steel had been reduced by instantaneous immolation.

There was a loud, drumlike boom, a magical concussion that was obviously much louder than the simple impact of metal on bone, and the drow sank to the ground, his jaw shattered.

Alas, the brief popularity of this idea could not survive the demonstration that long-term memories persisted even if the total electrical activity of the brain was disrupted, by epileptic fits or electroconvulsive shock, for instance, or was brought virtually to zero by coma or concussion.

Paul suffered from a broken wrist, Gamay had a concussion, and they were both covered with bumps and bruises.

The sixth duke had died while Nez recuperated in Portugal from a concussion received during the second siege of Badajoz.

Usually there were broken bones involved, but for some reason this week it was cuts and bruises and concussion, so that none of the victims went to the orthopaedic block but arrived with monotonous regularity in the surgical ward.

Seconds later, the room reverberated with a thunderous concussion that prompted Stewart to regrasp his pistol and cautiously stand upright.

The roundoff curled up, knocking men to their knees with the concussion.

His head showed a large bruise about the left temple and I thought it likely he had sustained a concussion.

The companions slapped palms over their ears as protection from the concussion just as the wicker basket erupted in a tremendous explosion.

The concussion slapped the sec man like an invisible fist, the shotgun rounds peppering the tank and stonework.

Star Destroyer reduced the number of cruiser analogs to five with a devastating turbolaser volley, and the A-wings reduced it to four with a high-speed concussion missile-proton torpedo combination pass.

Corellian section of Nar Shaddaa, Han and Chewie had installed a military-grade rectenna, a ventral quad laser cannon, and concussion missile launchers between the mandibles.

Ten hours before landfall, Davin marched up to the quartermaster and collected his desert gear: heat-reflective armor, comlink, filtermask, blaster rifle, blaster pistol, temperature-control body glove, utility belt, energy source, and concussion grenade launcher.