Contusion
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In medical jurisprudence. An injury or lesion, arising from the shock of a body with a large surface, which presents no loss of substance, and no apparent wound. If the skin be divided, the injury takes the name of a contused wound.
See 1 Chanc. Prac. 38; 4 Car. & P. 381, 487, 558, 565; 6 Car. & P. 684; 2 Beck, Med. Jur. 178.
CONTUTOR (Lat.) In civil law. A cotutor, or co-guardian.
Inst. 1. 24. 1.