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‖ contrecoup|kɔ̃trəku|
[F. contre-coup a counter-blow, back-blow, rebound, and in Surg. as in sense 2; f. contre against + coup blow.]
1. ‘Opposition, a repulse in the pursuit of any object’ (Jamieson).
2. Surg. The effect of a blow, as an injury, fracture, produced exactly opposite, or at some distance from, the part actually struck.
1830S. Cooper Dict. Pract. Surg. (ed. 6) 607 Sometimes the fracture [occurs] elsewhere, as the effect of what the French call a contre-coup. 1870T. Holmes Surgery (ed. 2) II. 316 The one..is a direct contusion, the other a contusion by contre-coup of the brain substance. 1882Syd. Soc. Lex., Contre-coup..is often very severe in the skull, for instance, the bone may be fractured on the opposite side to the seat of injury. |