Usually means: Bruise caused by blood pooling.
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  1. contusion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. contusion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contusion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contusion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contusion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contusion, contusion: Wordnik
  7. contusion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contusion: Wiktionary
  9. contusion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contusion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contusion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. contusion: Dictionary.com
  13. contusion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Contusion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Contusion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. contusion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. contusion: Rhymezone
  18. Contusion, contusin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. contusion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. contusion: Free Dictionary
  21. contusion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. contusion: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Contusion: Legal dictionary

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  1. contusion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Contusion: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Contusion: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  6. contusion: Medical dictionary
  7. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  9. Contusion: Conditions of the Foot and Ankle
  10. Contusion: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Contusion: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See contuse as well.)

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noun:  (medicine, countable) Synonym of bruise.
noun:  (medicine, uncountable) Synonym of bruising.

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