Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Apt to cause contusion; bruising.
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Examples
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Eliminating the forms of elbow inflammation, such as are caused by metastatic infection and other conditions which properly belong to the domain of theory of practice, we may consider this affection under the classification of _contusive wounds_ and _penetrative wounds_.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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"[Blocker] is way out of the way and not really contusive to having students in the center,"
The Battalion 2009
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Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC (2001) Degeneration and sprouting of identified descending supraspinal axons after contusive spinal cord injury in the rat.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Mitra J. Hooshmand et al. 2009
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