Crossword clues for contusion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contusion \Con*tu"sion\, n. [L. contusio: cf. F. contusion.]
The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.
(Med.) A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A wound, such as a bruise, in which the skin is not broken; often having broken blood vessels and discolouration
WordNet
n. an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration [syn: bruise]
the action of bruising; "the bruise resulted from a contusion"
Usage examples of "contusion".
The left metacarpal bones were dislocated from the carpal bones, the left tibia was fractured, and there were contusions about the back and hips.
I threw a hemostat at him, which smacked into his left cheek and left another contusion.
At the moment he was in the hospital, where physicians were attending to his broken leg, lacerations, abrasions, and contusions.
Then he limped to that hut vacated by Weamish, and here he passed a wakeful night, by reason of sprains, bruises, and contusions.
He sustained a contusion of the forehead, a fractured clavicle and a ruptured plantaris.
Fraker had dictated effectively reduced Rick's death to observations about the craniocerebral trauma he'd sustained, with a catalogue of abrasions, contusions, small-intestine avulsions, mesenteric lacerations, and sufficient skeletal damage to certify Rick's crossing of the River Styx.
Fraker had dictated effectively reduced Rick's death to observations about the craniocerebral trauma he'd sustained, with a catalogue of abrasions, contusions, small-intestine avulsions, mesenteric lacerations, and sufficient skeletal damage to certify Ricks crossing of the River Styx.
It was the battering she'd taken, she told herself: heat, lack of sleep, blunt trauma, contusions, severed fingers, dead Cubans and live heroes.
Before Brown could reply, a shot from Carondelet struck the forward shield of the pilothouse and bounced off, inflicting Brown with a severe contusion on his forehead as he was slammed against the hard iron wall.
Multiple perforations of the gut, two broken vertebrae, compound fracture of the left femur, and assorted scrapes, punctures, bruises, abrasions, and contusions.
He could also point to the minor cuts and contusions which both had suffered when their respective ships had manoeuvred abruptly or suffered concussive buffeting: those could as easily have been mortal wounds.
They had all seen the purple bruising and lacerations: now the contusions were faintly yellow splotches, and the wounds were visibly closing.
They doubted he had ever met crystal singers before or knew that their minor bruises, lacerations and contusions healed overnight, leaving them fully able to cope with the new day's ordeals.
You wouldn't be able to deliver every blow with precisely the same force and at precisely the same angle as all the other blows, which is what you would've had to've done to create the kind of contusions on these bodies.
There were abrasions and contusions on many of the workers' faces and exposed arms that showed a pitched battle had taken place.