contusionin a sentence
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For initial treatment of a mild contusion, remember RICE: Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation.
contusion = an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration (bruising)
- Initial treatment of a contusion calls for ice for 10 to 15 minutes every two hours, but after a day or two, heat may be helpful.
- Several shop owners attempting to defend their property are in hospital recovering from contusions.† (source)
- Half was a purple contusion that hung in strips like a shredded mask.† (source)
- And most serious, the contusions on my brain.† (source)
- Four other men, including two of the Algerians, sustained contusions.† (source)
- She had countless contusions and fractures.† (source)
- Lab reports show semen, and medicals show contusions and lacerations.† (source)
- Only spent a couple hours at most in the river; the contusions and lacerations are evident.† (source)
- The night before, Paramedic (in Training) Lindsey Lee Wells had diagnosed him with moderate contusions and "sprained balls" after an exhaustive search of medical Websites.† (source)
- Both arms were broken, along with multiple lacerations, contusions, I suspect internal injuries and a severe concussion.† (source)
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- There are multiple fractures and contusions, some with open gashes in them.† (source)
- While he examined her he explained about abrasions and contusions and the healing process.† (source)
- Then those troubling eyes, the color of contusions, refocused on the twenty-dollar bill.† (source)
- There were no lacerations or obvious contusions, but that meant nothing; serious brain trauma was still possible.† (source)
- We were suffering bruises, contusions, and flesh wounds—and we weren't doing Igli any damage, Oh, he screamed like a TV grunt & groaner every time one of us twisted an ear or bent back a finger, but we weren't really hurting him and he was decidedly hurting us.† (source)
- He saw the black and blue marks on Blomkvist's face and the contusions on his chest.† (source)
- Jesus, brain contusions, collapsed lung.† (source)
- The question mark is still the brain contusions.† (source)
- I've got some nasty bruises and contusions, and I ache all over.† (source)
- By the light of a lantern, he had examined himself and found: left clavicle fractured; multiple abrasions and lacerations of face and body, including deep cuts on the chin, back, and legs; extensive contusions on chest and trunk: a couple of ribs possibly fractured.† (source)
- Both contusion and concussion of the brain had occurred.† (source)
- Dr. Halpin, assistant house surgeon of the City of Dublin Hospital, stated that the deceased had two lower ribs fractured and had sustained severe contusions of the right shoulder.† (source)
- The head had received a severe contusion, but he had seen greater injuries recovered from: he was by no means hopeless; he spoke cheerfully.† (source)
- In fact, a man on horseback galloped down, before the passengers were well collected together; and a careful investigation being instituted, it appeared that the lady inside had broken her lamp, and the gentleman his head; that the two front outsides had escaped with black eyes; the box with a bloody nose; the coachman with a contusion on the temple; Mr Squeers with a portmanteau bruise on his back; and the remaining passengers without any injury at all—thanks to the softness of the snow-drift in which they had been overturned.† (source)
- Some sprained shoulders, wrists, and ankles; livid contusions; wrenched harpoons and lances; inextricable intricacies of rope; shattered oars and planks; all these were there; but no fatal or even serious ill seemed to have befallen any one.† (source)
- Benjamin received a severe contusion from the recoil of his gun, which produced a short stupor, during which period the ex-steward was prostrate on the ground.† (source)
- Lydgate leaped and climbed, he hardly knew how, on to the stage, and was active in help, making the acquaintance of his heroine by finding a contusion on her head and lifting her gently in his arms.† (source)
- Deeds of violence, brutalities, contusions, fractures; this is the work of the revolutions from Luther to Mirabeau.† (source)
- He studied the science of herbs, the science of unguents; he became an expert in fevers and in contusions, in sprains and abcesses.† (source)
- Plus more contusions than I care to count.† (source)
- He left to a chorus of respectful good nights, looking more relaxed than he had in days, in spite of the pain from scrapes, cuts, and assorted contusions.† (source)
- Jones received this full in his eyes, and it had infinitely a stronger effect on him than all the contusions which he had received before.† (source)
- —"Well, sir," said the surgeon, "then I shall not tire your patience; in short, within six weeks my patient was able to walk upon his legs as perfectly as he could have done before he received the contusion."† (source)
- I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge; and the interior membranes were so divellicated, that the os or bone very plainly appeared through the aperture of the vulnus or wound.† (source)
- Contusions and lacerations are often attended with worse phaenomena, and with more fatal consequences, than fractures.† (source)
- People who know nothing of the matter conclude, if the skull is not fractured, all is well; whereas, I had rather see a man's skull broke all to pieces, than some contusions I have met with.† (source)
- No, no, people are not so soon well of such contusions; but, sir, I am not at this time of day to be instructed in my operations by a patient, and I insist on making a revulsion before I dress you.† (source)
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