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Definition of Contusions
1. contusion [n] - See also: contusion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contusions
Literary usage of Contusions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"Г conclusions of the spine. Г contusions of the chest. Г contusions of the abdomen.
' contusions of the pelvis ала perineum, ..."
2. Modern surgery, general and operative by John Chalmers Da Costa (1910)
"contusions AND WOUNDS. infusions.—-A contusion or bruise is a subcutaneous
laceration, due to application of blunt force, the skin above it being uninjured ..."
3. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1904)
"contusions of the Abdomen BY CA HAMANN, MD, CLEVELAND Thinking that a consideration
of the subject of abdominal contusions with their results would be of ..."
4. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"BY the action of a blunt object on the soft parts, the skin will sometimes be
injured, sometimes it will not; hence we distinguish contusions with or ..."
5. The Principles of Surgery and Surgical Pathology: General Rules Governing by Hermann Tillmanns (1894)
"contusions and Wounds of Bone.—If a bone is crushed by a blow from a blunt object,
... The course of contusions of the soft parts is described in § 92. ..."
6. A Manual of Instruction in the Principles of Prompt Aid to the Injured by Alvah Hunt Doty (1914)
"contusions—BRUISES. A CONTUSION is an injury inflicted upon a portion of the body
by a ... In severe contusions, although the skin may be at first unbroken, ..."
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