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▪ I. contusion|kənˈtjuːʒən|
(In 5 -teschown.)
[a. F. contusion, ad. L. contūsiōn-em crushing, bruising, n. of action from contundĕre: see prec.]
1. The action of bruising, or condition of being bruised.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 50 margin, Wondis made with conteschown, þat ben maad wiþ smytynge of staf or stoon, or fallynge. 1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 F iij, Yf that there be contusyon. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 204 One is performed by Contusion, the other by Excision. 1711E. Ward Quix. I. 95 That e'ery stroke did Execution, By deep Incision or Contusion.
b. transf. The action of striking as with a blunt heavy body.
1626Bacon Sylva §187 The Interior [sound] is rather an Impulsion or Contusion of the Air, than an Elysion or Section of the same.
2. An injury to the body caused by a blow with a blunt or heavy instrument, by collision with a hard surface, etc., without breaking the skin; a bruise.
1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. iii. 3 That Winter Lyon, who in rage forgets Aged contusions. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 113 Used..for contusions and swellings. 1711Lond. Gaz. No. 4895/4 Major General Sibourg..receiv'd a Contusion in the Breast, from a piece of a Bomb Shell. 1807–26S. Cooper First Lines Surg. (ed. 5) 294 Contusions of the scalp sometimes occasion abcesses. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 142 A ‘contusion’ is caused by a blow from a blunt instrument.
†3. Beating small, pounding, or braying. Obs.
1612Woodall Surg. Mate Wks. (1653) 269 Contusion is the beating of grosse bodies into smaller or very subtile parts. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 94 Juices are got out by Contusion and Expression. 1764Harmer Observ. xvi. iv. 171 There are other ways..of potting flesh for keeping, besides that of contusion.
▪ II. contusion, v.
[ad. F. contusionner, f. contusion: see prec.]
trans. To affect with contusion, to bruise. (Only in pass.)
1871Standard 7 Feb., In this rush the general was thrown down and contusioned. 1884E. A. B. Hodgetts Pers. Remin. Skobeleff 278 When Skobeleff was contusioned on the night of the 8th November, his father came to see him. |