English > contusion: 2 senses > noun 1, state| Meaning | An injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration. |
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| Synonym | bruise |
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| Narrower | ecchymosis | The purple or black-and-blue area resulting from a bruise |
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| petechia | A minute red or purple spot on the surface of the skin as the result of tiny hemorrhages of blood vessels in the skin (as in typhoid fever) |
| shiner, black eye, mouse | A swollen bruise caused by a blow / blow to the eye |
| Broader | injury, hurt, harm, trauma | Any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. |
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| Spanish | cardenal, contusión, golpe, hematoma, magulladura, morado, moratón, moretón |
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| Catalan | blau, blaverol, contusió, cop, hematoma, morat |
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