Bruise vs Contuse - What's the difference?
bruise | contuse |
To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way.
Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
To become bruised.
To fight with the fists; to box.
* Thackeray
(medicine) A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface.
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:
In transitive terms the difference between bruise and contuse
is that bruise is to damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way while contuse is to injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.As a noun bruise
is a purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.bruise
English
(wikipedia bruise)Alternative forms
* bruize (obsolete)Verb
(bruis)- Bananas bruise easily.
- I bruise easily.
- Bruising was considered a fine, manly, old English custom.
Derived terms
* bruiser * bruisingNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (medical) ecchymosis, contusion (technical term ) * See alsoAnagrams
* * * English ergative verbs ----contuse
English
Verb
(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.