In medical jurisprudence . A contusion; an injury upon the flesh of a person with a blunt or heavy instrument , without solution of continuity, or without breaking the skin. Shadock v. Road Co., 79 Mich. 7, 44 N. W. 158; State v. Owen, 5 N. C. 452, 4 Am. Dec. 571.
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