When a nail is contused or crushed, blood is extravasated beneath it, and the nail is usually shed, a new one growing in its place.
When an artery has been contused or ruptured, the limb must be placed in the most favourable condition for restoration of the circulation.
All such injuries are to be treated on the general principles governing contused and lacerated wounds.
Contusion of a nerve-trunk is attended with extravasation of blood into the connective-tissue sheaths, and is followed by degeneration of the contused nerve fibres.
An artery may be contused by a blow or crush, or by the oblique impact of a bullet.
Three varieties of wounds are described: incised, punctured, and contused and lacerated.
A contused muscle should be placed at rest and supported by cotton wool and a bandage; after an interval, massage and appropriate exercises are employed.
A contused wound is one in which the edges and surrounding tissues are bruised or crushed.
If the soft parts are so severely contused as to jeopardize the nutrition, both bandaging and ice should be withheld, and in some instances even warm applications are advised.
In a lacerated or contused wound, portions of tissue injured beyond repair should be regarded as foreign bodies and should be removed with scissors.
The awful strain he had undergone, and the anguish of his contused ankle, now stiff and sore, rendered such a rest absolutely essential.
And now he forgot the pain of his contused ankle, as, full of interest he stood within this wonderful tomb.
This may occur at the time of the injury, the nerve being contused by the force causing the fracture, or pressed upon by one or other of the fragments, or its fibres may be partly or completely torn across.
One or more of the branches of this nerve may be compressed by extravasated blood, or be contused and lacerated in fractures implicating the region of the sphenoidal fissure.
The bones of the skull may be contusedor fractured.
Contused and lacerated wounds result from explosions and injuries by firearms, and foreign bodies, such as particles of stone or coal, or grains of gunpowder and small shot, may lodge in the tissues.
The contusion, or rather the contused wound appeared,--an oval below the chest between the third and fourth ribs.
Herbert's back was covered with blood from another contused wound, by which the ball had immediately escaped.
Cough was not commonly the troublesome symptom noted in the contused wounds of the lung seen in civil practice accompanying fracture of the ribs.
Two ragged contused wounds existed, which healed slowly, but no serious nervous or vascular injury had been produced.
Aperture of entry ragged, roughly circular, and 2 inches in diameter, with much-contused margins situated in the median line, nearly midway between the ensiform cartilage and umbilicus.
The loss of substance, moreover, in the primary stage is not actually so great as appears to be the case, fragments of contused tissue from the margin being turned into the opening of the wound track.
In some cases the gut was merely contused by lateral contact of the passing bullet.
Transitory hæmorrhage and signs of oedema were the only signs referable to the wound, but in addition the bullet contused the left vagus and gave rise to temporary laryngeal paralysis.
The dark central spot under these circumstances consists of the contused margin of the wound in the skin, and a small proportion of blood-clot which finally comes away as a small dry scab.
The bullet had divided the optic nerve and contused the ball.
Contusions and contused wounds may occasionally show the marks of a weapon, indicating that they were inflicted by another.
The course of repair resembles that of contused wounds as a rule.
Irregular perforating instruments, the wounds from which resemble contused wounds.
This applies to many of the contused injuries and deaths from falls in prize-fights and drunken brawls.
A variety of contused wounds is that where the wound of the skin consists merely of an erosion or excoriation with an ecchymosis beneath.
In this case the weapon was a bill-hook which had produced contused wounds on the head.
We would here exclude those contused wounds of the scalp and eyebrows which closely resemble incised wounds, but we have already seen that we can diagnose between these wounds and incised wounds by careful inspection.
If the question is asked which of two weapons caused certain contusions or contused wounds, we are still less likely to be able to answer it.
In contused wounds, unless they be perfectly aseptic, we usually find sloughing of the contused, necrotic tissues.
If there are contusions orcontused wounds on several parts of the head, or if the wounds are on the vertex of the head, it is presumptive of the use of weapons.
The regularity and smoothness of the edges distinguish them from certain contused wounds.
God bless my soul--" He paused, staring from the yellow faces of the pugilists to the battered and contusedfeatures of his own seamen.
Lacerated and contused wounds may be described together although there is, of course, this difference, that in contused wounds there is no break or laceration of the skin.
At first we should administer a light physic and follow this up with sedatives and anodynes, as directed for contused wounds.
Contused wounds are caused by blunt instruments moving with sufficient velocity to bruise and crush the tissues, as kicks, running against objects, or falling on large, hard masses.
Bruises are nothing but contused wounds where the skin has not been ruptured.
The lacerated andcontused brain-substance was removed.
The right eye was contused but the pupils equal; the vertex-wound was full of brain-substance and pieces of bone, ten of which were removed, leaving an oval opening four by three inches.
The skin of the penis was stripped off to its root, the scrotum torn off from its base, and the testicles were contused and lacerated, and yet good recovery ensued.
The wound is generally lacerated and contused and the mouths of the vessels do not gape, but are twisted and crushed.
Purcell reports death in a pregnant woman from contused wound of the vulva.
A dog bite is really a lacerated and contused wound, and lying in the little roughnesses, and between the shreds, is the poisonous saliva.
Lacerated and contused wounds are made by a tearing or bruising instrument, for example, catching the finger on a nail.
On the right cheek is a linear contused wound three and a quarter inches long.
No; there was a long cut or bruise on the right cheek--a contused wound the police surgeon called it, which he believes to have been inflicted with a heavy and rather blunt weapon.
This fact may be accounted for by its more exposed position; it is also frequently injured by being trampled upon and otherwise contused or cut, as in lacerated wounds of the quarter.
Indirect injury to vessels may occur because of contusedwounds and subsequent inflammation of tissues supplied by such vessels.
Contused wounds of the anterior brachial region are treated along usual lines; that is, attempt is made to stimulate prompt resolution.
In all contused wounds of the coronary region the parts need thorough cleansing; the hair, if long is clipped and a cataplasm is applied.
The proximity to the axillary lymph glands makes for easy dissemination of infection when the contused musculature becomes infected.
A contused wound is an injury caused by a blunt object.
Superficial-contused wounds may be an abrasion to the skin or mucous surface.
Deep-contused wounds may be followed by loss of tissue or sloughing, and may present irregular, swollen margins.
Subcutaneous, punctured, lacerated, contused and deep wounds without suitable drainage are the most suitable for the development of and infection of the tissues with the above germs.
If the severest forms of contused and lacerated wounds heal thus kindly under the antiseptic treatment, it is obvious that its application to simple incised wounds must be merely a matter of detail.
I told him yes, because all wounds of great joints, and especially contused wounds, were mortal, according to all those who have written about them.
Ordinary contused wounds are, of course, amenable to the same treatment as compound fractures, which are a complicated variety of them.
Joints may be contused or opened by projectiles, without apparent lesion of any portion of the bones entering into their composition; but these are exceptions to the usual order of such cases from gunshot.
Lacerated wounds combine the characters of incised and contused wounds.
Herberts back was covered with blood from another contused wound, by which the ball had immediately escaped.
The external applications for a contused limb should vary, according to circumstances, or according as the contusion has caused a mortified slough, or has not.
They must be decisive in favour of preserving contused and shattered limbs, in opposition to amputation.
I have now finished what I had most material to say, against the practice which still prevails, of too precipitately taking off the limbs when they are contused or shattered.
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