Was it my wrist contused in the sarcophagic groove.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carol Moldaw reads Gjertrud Schnackenberg] Reference

For a moment she felt contused, then came a revulsion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

His head contused, or else confused, allow'd him not to swim.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference

Face, nose, side, back contused; tendon of left ankle broken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

The palms and fingers of the victim's hands had been contused.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting Season]

Lacerated wounds combine the characters of incised and contused wounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference

The purser was much cut about the head, and both his arms severely contused.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

Superficial-contused wounds may be an abrasion to the skin or mucous surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

Eponine was contused when she stepped onto the grass from the station platform.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garden of Rama]

Wounds of various characters -- contused, lacerated, and punctured -- may be produced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference

He pushed the contused and mounting thoughts aside, and came to the core of the matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wicked Day]

His lips were a contused, shapeless mass, and his mouth was full of blood and broken teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAUKI] Reference

It was the severely contused and lacerated, but seemingly victorious, figure of—Hans Neuendorf!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nevermore] Reference

Subdued and silenced, limpness in a sighed caress, gentle, tender, and they part contused in humid sweetness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consciousness Of Our Return (rev)] Reference

The skin may be opened by cutting, or stabbing wounds; or it may be punctured, torn, contused, or bruised open.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

Deep-contused wounds may be followed by loss of tissue or sloughing, and may present irregular, swollen margins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

A contused-lacerated wound should not be closed with sutures unless it is clean and shows no evidence of sloughing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The contusion, or rather the contused wound appeared, — an oval below the chest between the third and fourth ribs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysterious Island] Reference

Two ragged contused wounds existed, which healed slowly, but no serious nervous or vascular injury had been produced.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

Lacerated and contused wounds are made by a tearing or bruising instrument, for example, catching the finger on a nail.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

But a bone may be contused, and yet remain in its natural condition without any fracture in it; this is the second mode.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Injuries Of The Head] Reference

I found him in a dazed condition, with a bruise on the top of his head, four or five inches in length, swollen and contused.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Dark Plot or Tyranny on the Frontier] Reference

Indirect injury to vessels may occur because of contused wounds and subsequent inflammation of tissues supplied by such vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1] Reference

One rescued girl had a broken leg, and a boy was concussed, his face badly contused, and a long wound giving his hair a new parting.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Fall]

There was a small contused area behind the right ear, with a little blood where the skin had been broken, but no noticeable swelling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Satan Bug]

A contused-lacerated wound should not be sutured if this interferes with the cleansing of it, and the escape of the wound secretions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

Ordinary contused wounds are, of course, amenable to the same treatment as compound fractures, which are a complicated variety of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference

The ER was a mixed blessing: her insides were burnt and lacerated and her arms were a contused mess, but they all thought she was crazy.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2007 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

Also for any contused bruising of the skin, and especially for a black eye, to promptly bathe the injured part with a decoction of White.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

A dog bite is really a lacerated and contused wound, and lying in the little roughnesses, and between the shreds, is the poisonous saliva.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

The lacerated and contused brain-substance was removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

And that was the contused scalp wound over which I shuddered in the train.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thief in the Night: a Book of Raffles' Adventures] Reference

Bruises are nothing but contused wounds where the skin has not been ruptured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

The child had fallen on his arm, which was not broken, but violently contused.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Strange Story — Complete] Reference