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A bruise is just your blood throwing a tiny internal party no one invited.
means A bruise — an injury where small blood vessels break under the skin without breaking the skin itself, leaving a discolored mark.
from From Latin contundere, meaning 'to bruise' or 'pound together' — formed from com- (intensifying prefix) and tundere, 'to beat or pound.' The same tundere root shows up, more distantly, in words touching on pounding and blows. The Latin past participle contusus led to English 'contusion' entering via medical Latin, which borrowed the term wholesale to describe exactly what it sounds like: tissue that's been beaten without being broken open.
- actual cause
- capillaries rupture, leaking blood under skin
- color timeline
- red to purple to green to yellow
- fancy name for
- literally just a bruise
- worst kind
- bone contusions hurt longer than fractures sometimes