contusion

Noun
  1. An injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration (synset 114312373)
    is a type of: harm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
    subtypes:
    • ecchymosis - the purple or black-and-blue area resulting from a bruise
    • 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)
    • black eye, mouse, shiner - a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
    same as: bruise
  2. The action of bruising (synset 100126920)
    "the bruise resulted from a contusion"
    is a type of: hit, hitting, striking - the act of contacting one thing with another

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