A contused wound is one the result of a bruise or blow inflicted with a blunt object or by a flat surface.
He received a slight wound and fell back into the trench a distance of six feet, striking but not contusing the back of his head.
His lips were a contused, shapeless mass, and his mouth was full of blood and broken teeth.
Bruises are nothing but contused wounds where the skin has not been ruptured.
Wounds may be classified as incised, punctured, contused, lacerated, or poisoned.
Traumatic arthritis may result from all sorts of accidents wherein joints are contused.
One of them was so much jammed by the mass which came over him that he was seriously contused.
In a lacerated or contused wound, portions of tissue injured beyond repair should be regarded as foreign bodies and should be removed with scissors.
