contusion
Blunt trauma mark
Contusion is the medical term for a bruise—an injury where blood vessels beneath the skin are damaged by impact without breaking the skin itself.
The area typically becomes discolored and tender as blood pools in the tissue.
While bruise is the everyday word, contusion appears in medical reports and clinical contexts: The patient presented with multiple contusions to the face and arms.
A cerebral contusion is a bruise on the brain, usually from trauma.
Blood collected outside vessels
- discolorationAltered surface pigmentation
- black-and-blueDiscolored from injury
- purpuraBleeding beneath the skin
- petechiaeMinute subcutaneous hemorrhages
lividity · mottled · blotches · splotches · marbled · suffusion · dappled · blemish
Dull or tactlessly direct
Water's solid form
- compressionForcing into smaller space
- elevationHeight above reference point
- restCessation of activity
- arnicaHerbal bruise treatment
recovery · fading · resolving · reabsorption · treatment · anticoagulant · clotting · platelet
Pathological tissue puffiness
- inflammationProtective tissue response
- puffinessMild tissue swelling
- tumefactionMorbid tissue distension
- engorgementOverfilling causing swelling
bulge · lump · welt · tenderness · distension · oedema · protuberance · enlargement
hematoma
Blood collected outside vessels
- discolorationAltered surface pigmentation
- black-and-blueDiscolored from injury
- purpuraBleeding beneath the skin
petechiae · lividity · mottled · blotches · splotches · marbled · suffusion · dappled · blemish · stained
blunt
Dull or tactlessly direct
strike · bump · knock · blow · trauma · shock · jolt · thump · bash · slam
ice
Water's solid form
- compressionForcing into smaller space
- elevationHeight above reference point
- restCessation of activity
arnica · recovery · fading · resolving · reabsorption · treatment · anticoagulant · clotting · platelet · healing
edema
Pathological tissue puffiness
- inflammationProtective tissue response
- puffinessMild tissue swelling
- tumefactionMorbid tissue distension
engorgement · bulge · lump · welt · tenderness · distension · oedema · protuberance · enlargement · raised
- medicinedoctor, doctors, hospital, medicine, surgery
- injuriesbruise, fracture, sprain, fractures, concussion
- body painache, aches, pain, pang, throb
- home injuriesburn, cut, fall, bruise, scrape
- forensicsDNA, DNA analysis, fingerprints, forensics, criminalistics
- bodily harmhurt, injure, wound, harm, injuries