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Contusions are a type of hematoma — any collection of blood outside a blood vessel. When you get a contusion, capillaries or blood vessels are injured, and blood leaks into the...
Bone contusions are blood trapped under the surface of your bone after an injury. Your bones are living tissue that can get bruised in lots of the same ways your skin can. It takes much more force to bruise a bone than your skin, but the injury is very similar.
A contusion—or, bruise—occurs when your body gets hit due to a blunt impact. Find out more about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
A contusion results from an injury that breaks the capillaries (tiny blood vessels) beneath the skin, causing bleeding and discoloration. A contusion often starts as a red or pinkish color.
A muscle contusion is a bruise in your muscle. It’s a painful injury that happens when a direct hit by a blunt object crushes your muscle fibers and connective tissue without breaking your skin open.
A contusion is an injury that causes bleeding and tissue damage underneath the skin, usually without breaking the skin. Any injury that puts pressure on an area repetitively...
What is a bruise (ecchymosis)? “Ecchymosis” (pronounced “eh-chuh-mow-sis”) is the medical term for a bruise. A bruise, or contusion, is skin discoloration from damaged, leaking blood vessels underneath your skin. Even though there’s blood pooling underneath your skin, you won’t have any external bleeding unless your skin breaks open.
A bruise is medically referred to as a contusion. A purplish, flat bruise that occurs when blood leaks out into the top layers of skin is referred to as ecchymosis. What are some causes of bruising, and what do they indicate? The terminology describing different types of bruising often refers to not only their appearance but also to their cause.
Contusions occur when a direct blow or repeated blows by a blunt object strike part of the body, crushing underlying muscle fibers and connective tissue without breaking the skin. A contusion can result from falling or jamming the body against a hard surface. A contusion may result from a direct blow to a muscle when players collide during sports.
What is a contusion? A contusion is a bruise that appears on your skin after an injury. A bruise happens when small blood vessels tear but skin does not. Blood leaks into nearby tissue, such as soft tissue or muscle. What increases my risk for a contusion? What are the signs and symptoms of a contusion? How is a contusion diagnosed?