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8 pathology terms (diseases and disease symptoms)
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contuse
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tags: [pathosis]
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Definition:to bruise
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From this combat, there must result one conquered and one contused—a diabolical contusion which he wished to keep distant from his physiognomy by God's help until after his death.
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The face steamed with sweat, and the eyeballs were contused.
Graham Greene. The Heart of the Matter, p.47 (1948)
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making the acquaintance of his heroine by finding a contusion on her head and lifting her gently in his arms.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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