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bruise
A similar injury to plant tissue, often resulting in discoloration or spoilage.
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  1. A similar injury to plant tissue, often resulting in discoloration or spoilage.
  2. A painful feeling caused by or associated with an experience.
  3. An injury to underlying tissues or bone in which the skin is not broken, often characterized by ruptured blood vessels and discolorations; a contusion.
wound
Any hurt or injury to the feelings, honor, etc.
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  1. Any hurt or injury to the feelings, honor, etc.
  2. An injury to an organism, especially one in which the skin or another external surface is torn, pierced, cut, or otherwise broken.
  3. An injury to the body in which the skin or other tissue is broken, cut, pierced, torn, etc.
Find another word for contusion. In this page you can discover 5 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for contusion, like: bruise, black-and-blue mark, wound, bruise and injury.

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  • These methods of treatment require to be modified for wounds in special situations and for those in which there is much contusion and laceration.

  • A contusion may appear as a bruise beneath the skin or may appear only on imaging tests.

  • In April 1854 he again took the field in command of the army of the Danube, but on the 9th of June, at Silistria, where he suffered defeat, he received a contusion which compelled him to retire from active service.

  • acid supplementation enhances neurological recovery from a spinal cord contusion injury, showing its potential clinical impact.

  • The area of the cortical contusion is outlined in purple.

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