Definition of Contuses

1. Verb. (third-person singular of contuse) ¹

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Definition of Contuses

1. contuse [v] - See also: contuse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contuses

contumaciously
contumaciousness
contumacy
contumelies
contumelious
contumeliously
contumeliousness
contumely
contund
contunded
contunds
conturbation
conturbed
contuse
contused
contuses (current term)
contusing
contusion
contusion pneumonia
contusional
contusioned
contusions
contusive
conubial
conuenient
conular
conundra
conundrum
conundrums
conurban

Literary usage of Contuses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Traité élémentaire de pathologie externe by François Anthyme Eugène Follin, E. Follin, Simon Emmanuel Duplay (1869)
"Sous ce titre général de plaies contuses, on pourrait décrire celles qui sont produites par tous les instruments contondants, ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"19 D 4 in the Bodleian Library) contuses Matthew with Robert White. The collections (now at the Royal College of Music) from which Barnard compiled his ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1892)
"If he contuses the colours he will select either the light or deep shades of blue and violet, especially the deep (G mid 7). or the light or deep shades of ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"... plexus against the ribs, causing a contusion; secondly, the clavicle is elevated and compresses and contuses the roots against the transverse processes. ..."

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