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

Injuries.—When a nail is contused or crushed, blood is extravasated beneath it, and the nail is usually shed, a new one growing in its place.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis