contused

Example Sentences

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“The contused areas show the swelling to be receding.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2018

That day, he’d seen an elderly man who had taken a bad spill two or three weeks earlier, resulting in a contused kidney and a compression fracture of his lower spine.

From The New Yorker • May 4, 2015

I’m all in favor of marketers evolving beyond the farting animals and contused groins of Super Bowls past.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2015

Her aunts, Faith and Doreen, are superficially brassy but contused underneath.

From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2013

Lacerated and contused wounds may be described together although there is, of course, this difference, that in contused wounds there is no break or laceration of the skin.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.