Concussion vs Subconcussive - What's the difference?
concussion | subconcussive |
A violent collision or shock.
* Francis Bacon
An injury to part of the body, most especially the brain, caused by a violent blow, followed by loss of function.
(legal, civil law) The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value.
* Daniel
Below the threshold of concussion.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 28, author=Alan Schwarz, title=New Sign of Brain Damage in N.F.L., work=New York Times
, passage=The pamphlet also makes no mention of the C.T.E. cases, whose increasing number is convincing many experts that subconcussive brain trauma can have cumulative effects. }}
As a noun concussion
is a violent collision or shock.As an adjective subconcussive is
below the threshold of concussion.concussion
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air.
- Then concussion , rapine, pilleries, / Their catalogue of accusations fill.
Derived terms
* concussion fuse * concussion grenade ----subconcussive
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Adjective
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