Definitions for contusions

contusions con·tu·sion

Spelling: [kuh n-too-zhuh n, -tyoo-]
IPA: /kənˈtu ʒən, -ˈtyu-/

Contusions is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 326 anagrams from letters in contusions (cinnoosstu).

Definitions for contusions

noun

  1. an injury, as from a blow with a blunt instrument, in which the subsurface tissue is injured but the skin is not broken; bruise.

Origin of contusions

1350-1400; Middle English (Middle French) Latin contūsiōn- (stem of contūsiō). See contuse, -ion

Examples for contusions

contusion in this region, on the other hand, is not uncommon.

Two horses were killed under him, and he received a contusion in the thigh.

He did find concussion and contusion of the brain, yet there was no evidence of that.

There was quite a contusion near one temple and he was bleeding at the nose.

He had got a contusion, the doctor said, and would be confined to his cot for weeks.

"I've had contusion," said the little officer in a dreamy voice.

His skull was crushed, and he died in a few minutes from contusion of the brain.

It was at this juncture that he received the contusion, and became for some time senseless.

And yet you had suckled that son, though your breast had had to be lanced owing to a contusion.

It also means a grayish blue or lead color, as flesh by contusion.

Word Value for contusions
Scrable

11

Words with friends

15

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