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Triturate vs Contuse - What's the difference?

triturate | contuse | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between triturate and contuse

is that triturate is to grind to a fine powder, to pulverize while contuse is to injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.

triturate

English

Verb

  • To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize.
  • To mix two solid reactants by repeated grinding and stirring.
  • To break up biological tissue into individual cells via passage through a narrow opening such as a hypodermic needle.

    • Related terms

    * trituration

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    contuse

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.
  • * 1869 , St Louis Medical Society, The Medical Archives , vol. III:
    • 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?
  • * 1965 , John Fowles, The Magus :
    • His mouth had been struck or kicked. The lips were severely contused , reddened.
  • * 2008 , Donald Macleod, The Guardian , 2 Nov 2008:
    • 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.