raccoon eyes
Dark under-eye circles
Raccoon eyes are dark circles or bruising around both eyes, resembling the black mask markings on a raccoon's face.
In medical contexts, the term specifically indicates bruising that appears after a basilar skull fracture, as blood pools in the soft tissue around the eyes: The patient presented with raccoon eyes two days after the fall.
Informally, raccoon eyes describes any dark under-eye circles from exhaustion or smeared makeup.
- shinerBruised eye socket
- hematomaBlood collected outside vessels
- bruiseDiscolored tissue injury
- black eyeBruised tissue around socket
- swellingAbnormal tissue enlargement
dark circles · contusion · skull fracture · trauma · smudged · racoon · basal · periorbital · eye socket · mask · purple · head injury · maxilla · broken nose · frontal bone · blue · subdural hematoma · bleeding
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