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Wound is a type of injury in which skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound).
In addition, a simple bruise or contusion to a lower extremity is unlikely to cause a parent to bring a young child to the emergency room.
A large amount of force is required to cause pulmonary contusion; a person injured with such force is likely to have other types of injuries as well.
Phillips left the game after scoring a run and was found to have a contusion.
Oakland's Brandon McCarthy was hit on the head by a line drive in September, causing a skull fracture and brain contusion that required surgery.
Typically, a repeated contusion to muscle causes a protective contraction of muscle fibres, resulting in TBs in the VM and AF that are large enough to be palpated by an experienced clinical specialist.
Mass lesions such as contusions or hematomas causing a significant mass effect (shift of intracranial structures) are considered emergencies and are removed surgically.
A spokesperson for Barcelona said: "The player sustained a contusion which caused an edema in the fourth metatarsal in his left foot.
However, in rare cases, an airbag causes pulmonary contusion in a person who is not properly positioned when it deploys.
Tampa Bay Rays star Carl Crawford was hit in the groin during a game against the Baltimore Orioles, causing an extremely painful testicular contusion.
The concussive and shearing stresses of head injury may cause concussion, contusion of the brain (most often of the tips of the frontal and temporal lobes, called contrecoup injury), or laceration of the brain tissue.
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