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What is a contusion?

What is a contusion? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A wound, such as a bruise, in which the skin is not broken; often having broken blood vessels and discolouration
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That means a greatly reduced risk of suffering a serious head injury such as a brain contusion.
Also consider the possibility of cardiac contusion and tamponade if there has been trauma to the anterior chest wall.
But thirty million Americans who never before had health insurance now have coverage for issues like a head contusion from walking into a bar.
Eight of those injuries were concussions and one was a head contusion without any acute neurologic effects.
The same mechanisms that produce toe fractures may cause a ligament sprain, contusion, dislocation, tendon injury, or other soft tissue injury.
Double acting: eucalyptus to sooth the pain due to trauma or contusion, cold to anaesthetise the haematoma.

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