CONTUSION
\kəntjˈuːʒən], \kəntjˈuːʒən], \k_ə_n_t_j_ˈuː_ʒ_ə_n]\
Definitions of CONTUSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.
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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.
By Oddity Software
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Same etymon. An injury or lesion- arising from the impulse of a body with a blunt surface- which present no loss of substance, and no apparent wound. If the skin be divided, the injury takes the name of contused wound. The differences of contusions as to extent, are of course infinite. When slight, the blood stagnates in the capillaries of the skin, or is effused into the subcutaneous areolar tissue. Time and cold applications remove it. When the texture has been lacerated, there is effusion of blood, with more or less torpor in the part affected. Cooling applications, general or topical bleeding, emollients, poultices, &c., are there necessary, according to circumstances. In the severest kinds of contusion, all the soft and solid parts, except the skin of pap. When the disorganization is to this extent, there is no hope except in amputation. A deep contusion of the soft parts has been called Sacothlasis, and Sarcothlasis, and Sarcothlasma.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A compression and laceration of the tissues by a blow from a blunt instrument; a bruise. In pharmacy, a beating into coarse pieces. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe