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BRUISE, med. jurisp. An injury done with violence to the person, without breaking the skin; it is nearly synonymous with contusion. (q . v.) 1. Ch. Pr. 38; vide 4 Car. & P. 381, 487, 558, 565; Eng. C. L. Rep. 430, 526, 529. Vide Wound.

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Bruises are normally blue or purple, but can turn yellow or green as they start to fade.
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Amelia Clifford suffered an 'unexplained' bruise on her head after a stay at Prince Charles Hospital
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There were multiple, evenly placed, zigzagshaped bruise lines on the lateral and anterior aspect of the left arm (Figure 1), continuing across the anterior aspect of the left shoulder, extending on to the anterior left chest wall, and running obliquely downwards to the xiphisternum (Figure 2).
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Entries included three bruises across a person's chest, a large bruise to the left thigh, a bruise to the back of a left hand and bruise to a right hip.
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THE mother of a toddler who was found with 14 bruises and blackened with dirt in urine-soaked clothes has admitted child cruelty.
Mum spared jail over child cruelty charge
13 because he was concerned about bruises the child had on her body.
Woman accused of injuring her child

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