Difference between Contusion and Bruise

CONTUSION vs BRUISE: NOUN

A wound, such as a bruise, in which the skin is not broken; often having broken blood vessels and discolouration
A bruise; an injury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.
The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.
In surgery, a bruise; a hurt or injury to the flesh or some part of the body without breach of integument or apparent wound, as one inflicted by a blunt instrument or by a fall.
The act of reducing to powder or fine particles by beating or pounding.
The act of beating and bruising, or the state of being bruised.
An injury in which the skin is not broken; a bruise.
The action of bruising
An injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration

An injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration
A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface.
A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that have been damaged by a blow.
An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion.
A contusion; a superficial injury caused by impact, without laceration, as of an animal body, a plant, or other impressible object.
A painful feeling caused by or associated with an experience.
A similar injury to plant tissue, often resulting in discoloration or spoilage.
An injury to underlying tissues or bone in which the skin is not broken, often characterized by ruptured blood vessels and discolorations.

Hurt the feelings of
Injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of
Break up into small pieces for food preparation
Damage (plant tissue) by abrasion of pressure
To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it.
To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way.
Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
To bruise easily.

To pound (berries, for example) into fragments; crush.
To experience or undergo bruising.
To dent or mar.
To damage (plant tissue), as by abrasion or pressure.
To injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of (part of the body) without breaking the skin, as by a blow.
To fight with the fists; to box.
To hurt, especially psychologically.

Damage (plant tissue) by abrasion or pressure
To injure by a blow or by pressure without laceration; contuse, as a pliant substance; dent or beat in without breaking, as anything hard: as, to bruise the hand; a bruised apple; “his bruised shield,”
To crush by beating or pounding; pound; bray, as drugs or articles of food.
Figuratively, to beat down or oppress; cudgel, as the brain; scourge; damage.
To fight with the fists; box.

Groin, Elbow, Fracture, Metacarpal bone, Hematoma, Forearm, Injury, Soreness, Charley horse, Sprain, Laceration, Abrasion, Bruising, Concussion, Bruise

Graze, Injure, Bulge, Hurt, Wound, Scratch, Bump, Scrape, Lump, Abrasion, Concussion, Injury, Welt, Contuse, Contusion

Groin, Elbow, Fracture, Metacarpal bone, Hematoma, Forearm, Injury, Soreness, Charley horse, Sprain, Laceration, Abrasion, Bruising, Concussion, Bruise

Hump, Dent, Graze, Injure, Bulge, Hurt, Wound, Bump, Scrape, Lump, Abrasion, Concussion, Injury, Welt, Contusion

He suffered a left knee contusion and did not return.
Leonard sat out because of a left lower leg contusion.
Tenzer ML: The spectrum of myocardial contusion: a review.
Resuscitation of pulmonary contusion: Hypertonic saline is not beneficial.
Doncic sat out because of a left quadriceps contusion.
Plaintiff suffered from right hand contusion and lumbar strain.
Maswell, Eighteenth Pennsylvania, Company G, contusion in back.
Contrecoup injury can also lead to brain contusion.
Tenosynovitis, and contusion of carpal bone without fracture.
11. ^ Viestenz A, Kuchle M. "Ocular contusion caused by elastic cords: a retrospective analysis using the Erlangen Ocular Contusion Registry.".

Crean said it appears to be a bruise.
The bruise causes bleeding in the brain, and the more severe the bruise, the more severe the injury.
Estimates of the age of a bruise are currently based on an assessment of the colour of the bruise with the naked eye.
The photos, taken by household staff last June, show a bruise on Kawananakoa's right arm and a larger, arm-length bruise on her left arm.
He is going to bruise you on the head while you can do no more than bruise Him on the heel.
Miss Carsten also had a bruise on the left arm which resembled finger marks, and a bruise on the right hand.
As the bruise cleared up, we noticed that she had a new dimple, right where the bruise had been.
They can bruise easily and the fruit will go bad where the bruise is.
See the doctor if you suffer a severe bruise or a bone bruise.
He shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.