Difference between Injured and Contused

INJURED vs CONTUSED: ADJECTIVE

Harmed
Subjected to an injustice.
Having received an injury;-- usually used of physical or mental injury to persons. Opposite of uninjured.
Usually used of physical or mental injury to persons

Out of action, Burned, Mangled, Bitten, Disabled, Gashed, Contused, Harmed, Stabbed, Lacerated, Maimed, Bruised, Hurt, Dislocated, Wounded

Undescended, Extensor, Bursal, Olecranon, Lunate, Peroneal, Abscessed, Ischial, Chondral, Coracoid, Lacerated, Iliopsoas, Contusioned, Injured, Bruised

Out of action, Burned, Mangled, Bitten, Disabled, Gashed, Contused, Harmed, Stabbed, Lacerated, Maimed, Bruised, Hurt, Dislocated, Wounded

Undescended, Extensor, Bursal, Olecranon, Lunate, Peroneal, Abscessed, Ischial, Chondral, Coracoid, Lacerated, Iliopsoas, Contusioned, Injured, Bruised

Keetch may have been injured by a condition created by the spraying but she was not injured by the activity of spraying.
Persons involved in an accident in which another party is injured automatically go to jail until the injured person is released from the hospital.
In other words, if someone was injured, the person who caused the injury should be injured in the same way.
TRAFFIC COLLISIONS INVOLVING INJURED ANIMALSDepartment members should refer to the Animal Control Policy when a traffic accident involvesdisposition of an injured animal.
In the event of an accident in which someone is injured, the injured party would be responsible for their own medical bills.
Hoping that the injured would be compensated, many expressed relief when they found an executive of the construction company visiting the injured.
In the event that injuries are present at the scene, deputies shall check injured persons to identify those most seriously injured and fatalities.
Bus Accident Report Record of Injured Passenger To be completed by Transit Personnel on passengers injured in an accident.
Extra expenses for personal services which would have been performed by the injured person had they not been injured.
Who Can an Injured Worker Sue When He Is Injured at A Dangerous Work Site?

Wounds may be classified according to the nature of the article or weapon with which they are inflicted as incised, punctured, lacerated and contused.
Abnormal cerebral blood volume in regions of contused and normal appearing brain following traumatic brain injury using perfusion magnetic resonance imaging.
Lieutenant Rowan, United States navy, and Captain Gillespie, California battalion, slightly contused by spent balls.
Colonel Chadburn, although suffering from the pain of a contused thigh, resolutely kept his command.