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
All such injuries are to be treated on the general principles governing contused and lacerated wounds.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
