A relatively slight blow may damage the skin and underlying soft tissues, as shown by bruising, or contusion, which results from the infiltration of blood into the tissues from ruptured small vessels and by swelling caused by the passage of fluid through the walls of damaged capillaries.
That means a greatly reduced risk of suffering a serious head injury such as a brain contusion.
Compresses of toweling, wool, and other cloth materials are effective for reducing headache pain, slowing blood flow of nosebleeds, relaxing muscle spasms, localizing infection and subcutaneous bleeding from contusion, and reducing body heat in feverish conditions.
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.
The Las Vegas Police Department incident report noted that "Harris had redness to her face and a large contusion to the right side of her forehead and chin".
But thirty million Americans who never before had health insurance now have coverage for issues like a head contusion from walking into a bar.
A Department of Correction "injury to inmate" report says that Browder was "involved in a use of force" with "D.O.C. staff" that day, and that he suffered a facial contusion.
Shouts & Murmurs: "Americans who never before had health insurance now have coverage for issues like a head contusion from walking into a bar".
A report from Browder's subsequent visit to a medical clinic gives two explanations for the contusion: one is an "alleged attack by staff" and the other is "hitting his face into the shower wall," which Browder says did not happen.
Admittedly, "Ride Sally Ride" does have some ambiguous lyrics (for example, "Ride Sally ride / Because if you don't you'll get a contusion"), but its chorus — "Oooh, isn't it nice / When your heart is made out of ice" — is plainly a reference to the laconic astronaut's cool that Sally would come to have.
(They called one passage the Contusion Tubes).
