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  • And most serious, the contusions on my brain.†  (source)
  • Four other men, including two of the Algerians, sustained contusions.†  (source)
  • Both arms were broken, along with multiple lacerations, contusions, I suspect internal injuries and a severe concussion.†  (source)
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  • She had countless contusions and fractures.†  (source)
    contusions = injuries that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration (bruises)
  • Half was a purple contusion that hung in strips like a shredded mask.†  (source)
    contusion = an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration (bruising)
  • Only spent a couple hours at most in the river; the contusions and lacerations are evident.†  (source)
    contusions = injuries that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration (bruises)
  • 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)
    contusion = an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration (bruising)
  • There were no lacerations or obvious contusions, but that meant nothing; serious brain trauma was still possible.†  (source)
    contusions = injuries that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration (bruises)
  • 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)
    contusion = an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration (bruising)
  • 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)
    contusions = injuries that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration (bruises)
  • 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)
    contusion = an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration (bruising)
  • There are multiple fractures and contusions, some with open gashes in them.†  (source)
    contusions = injuries that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration (bruises)
  • 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)
    contusion = an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration (bruising)
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