injury vs contusion

contusion vs injury

injury and contusion both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
injury	Yes	No	No	No
contusion	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, contusion is a hyponym of injury; that is, contusion is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than injury:

injury: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury
contusion: an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration

Other hyponyms of injury include brain damage, birth trauma, blast trauma, bleeding, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, blunt trauma, bruise, bump, burn, dislocation, electric shock, break, fracture, cryopathy, frostbite, intravasation, penetrating injury, penetrating trauma, pinch, rupture, bite, insect bite, sting, strain, whiplash, whiplash injury, wale, weal, welt, wheal, lesion, wound, pull, twist, wrench.

injury (noun)	contusion (noun)
wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted	the action of bruising
an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage	an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration
an accident that results in physical damage or hurt
a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

Difference between injury and contusion

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