(v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall.
(v. t.) To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush.
(v. i.) To fight with the fists; to box.
(n.) An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most injuries due to accidents have been bruises, wounds and bone fractures of upper and lower limbs.
(2) Grosics did his best between the posts, but the team succumbed to Wales in a bruising play-off, thus failing to advance beyond the first stage.
(3) Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) type IV is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder characterized by thin skin, prominent venous vascular markings, markedly increased bruising, and an increased likelihood of large bowel and large artery rupture.
(4) Television images of his body showed heavy bruising to his face.
(5) A comparison was made of the effect of providing or denying water to steers during the last 20 h before slaughter on carcase weight, bruising, muscle pH, and during the dressing process on the numbers of rumens from which ingesta was split and the number of heads and tongues condemned because of contamination with ingesta.
(6) The acquired platelet function defects, especially those resulting from drugs, are very common and should promptly be suspected in patients developing easy and spontaneous bruising, mild to moderate mucosal membrane hemorrhage, or unexplained bleeding associated with trauma or surgery.
(7) When she returned she had a large bruise on her forehead.
(8) Lowest content of ascorbic acid occurred in bruised beans cooked in copper-fortified water.
(9) The decision by Moody's deals a bruising blow to the embattled chancellor, George Osborne, who has repeatedly nailed his credibility to the AAA rating.
(10) Iran’s supreme leader has accused Saudi Arabia of committing genocide in Yemen and said air strikes against Houthi rebels are doomed to fail, in a sharp escalation of tensions between the two rivals over the outcome of yet another bruising conflict in the Middle East.
(11) When we were treating him, he was not screaming or crying, just in shock.” There was so much there in his face, the blood and the dust mixed, at that age Mustafa al-Sarout Hours after he and his family were rescued, Omran was discharged from hospital, having suffered a head injury and bruises in the attack, but nothing too serious.
(12) Sir David Nicholson's bruising tenure as chief executive of the NHS saw him take a further battering from MPs as the public accounts committee criticised him over big pay rises for consultants and a range of other issues, including his penchant for first class rail travel.
(13) Bruising was the most frequent injury and was most prevalent among boys under 3 years of age.
(14) 4) In case of the death caused by the bruise sustained on the occipital region, casualties on gyrus frontale were recognized by 97%, while the bruise located on other than the occipital region, injuries were recognized by 51% on the opposite region, and the remaining 49% of it showed injuries on the same region of the sustained.
(15) He required hospital treatment for a potentially life-changing eye injury, a fractured cheekbone and substantial bruising to his body.
(16) Jen Dunstan, of Sheffield Disabled People Against the Cuts, told the Star: “Dozens of elderly and disabled people have been left with bruising.
(17) After months of bruising negotiation and a threatened legal challenge from the EC, a compromise was negotiated in 2005 under which the Premier League promised to sell the rights to at least two broadcasters.
(18) Monti has faced a bruising time as prime minister: battling with unions at home to reform the labour laws, and tussling with Angela Merkel on the euro summit circus.
(19) It's a harsh tale of contemporary Russia, as beautiful as a bruise.
(20) The case of Bo Xilai , the former Communist party high-flyer brought down after the mysterious death of a British businessman, was a wild courtroom drama full of explosive confessions, unexpected revelations and bruising confrontations.
Purplish
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat purple.
Example Sentences:
(1) A semiautomated colorimetric assay (MTT assay), based on the ability of live cells to reduce a tetrazolium-based compound, 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl tetrazolium bromide (MTT), to a purplish colored formazan product that can be measured spectrophotometrically, has recently been adapted for use in drug sensitivity analysis of cultured human tumor cell lines.
(2) The cases found positive by IHC showed brownish nuclei of the epithelium and those positive in ISH showed purple to purplish-black nuclei.
(3) Phlegmasia cerulea dolens is a severe form of venous thrombosis presenting as an edematous, painful, purplish-blue lower extremity.
(4) The heart was well encased by a thick layer of purplish vascular neoplasm enveloped mostly by thin pericardium, with some additional few foci of extracardiac metastasis.
(5) A purplish hue on the cellulitic region is highly suggestive of Hemophilus influenzae bacteremia.
(6) report a case appearing as a painless nontender mass in the right cheek, with purplish discoloration of the overlying skin.
(7) Laser microprobe mass analysis (LAMMA) identified aluminum at the location of the red lines and both aluminum and iron at the purplish lines.
(8) An elderly patient having bone pain, anemia, elevated blood calcium level, and renal failure along with purplish or skin-colored nodules and plaques on the trunk has a good chance of having multiple myeloma.
(9) The second patient presented erythematous and purplish macules on the fingertips.
(10) Twenty-four hours after the procedure, the patient developed purplish discoloration of toes and soles, livedo reticularis on lumbar region, buttocks and limbs, and renal failure.
(11) If you have crevices, crumbling walls or fractured concrete, try maidenhair spleenwort ( Asplenium trichomanes ), with its glossy bright green oval pinnae and purplish black stems.
(12) Pyoderma gangrenosum is a rare neutrophilic dermatosis seen initially as painful pustules or bullae on the skin that rapidly ulcerate and have a characteristic raised, purplish areola surrounding them.
(13) In two cases, however, purplish lines were found and one patient showed red as well as purplish lines.
(14) These granules appear blue with phosphotungstic acid haematoxylin stain, purplish blue with mallory aniline blue stain and are moderately reactive to alcian blue and PAS.
(15) An 85-year-old woman with congenital lymphedema of the right upper extremity developed a small purplish papule on the forearm, which was the first clinical evidence of lymphangiosarcoma.
(16) The skin was purplish in color and tender; the nodules were scattered over the entire surface.
(17) Clinically, they present as purplish-blue cutaneous nodules or, less frequently, as papular or urticarial eruptions.
(18) I came across this purplish-black fruit 20 years ago on my first trip to the country: I found myself up a jabuticaba tree in the backcountry of São Paulo state while, I must admit, stoned out of my own tree.
(19) Pale purplish tongue, purplish tongue, bluish purplish tongue, deep-red purplish tongue, dark tongue, yellow purplish tongue etc.
(20) Gross pathology consisted of purplish or black mucosal or transmural discoloration with erosions or ulcerations in segments of the jejunum or ileum of 18 cases and of the colon alone in four cases.