Contused vs Abrasion - What's the difference?
contused | abrasion |
(contuse)
To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.
* 1869 , St Louis Medical Society, The Medical Archives , vol. III:
* 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
* 2008 , Donald Macleod, The Guardian , 2 Nov 2008:
The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
(obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
(geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
(medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
(dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.
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As a verb contused
is past tense of contuse.As a noun abrasion is
the act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.contused
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(en-verb)- How many uteruses, vaginas and perineums, suppose you, would we have to contuse and lacerate before we acquired the amount of skill and dexterity to which the gentlemen who advocate the forceps have attained?
- His mouth had been struck or kicked. The lips were severely contused , reddened.
- This would have to be followed by a calculation of 'reasonable force', knowing that any bruising, scratching or contusing would expose me to a charge of assault.