bruise

Examples of bruise in the following topics:

• Black Eye

  • A black eye (periorbital hematoma) is a generally mild injury caused by bruising around the eye commonly due to an injury to the face.
  • A black eye (periorbital hematoma) or "shiner" is bruising around the eye that is commonly due to an injury to the face rather than to the eye.
  • The name is given due to the color of bruising caused by bleeding beneath the skin and around the eye.
  • As this blood is reabsorbed, various pigments are released that alter the appearance of the bruise .
  • As blood is reabsorbed, different pigments alter the color of the healing bruise.

• Skin Color as a Diagnostic Clue

  • Changes in skin color can be diagnostic of trauma (bruising), environmental, or physiological changes (jaundice, melasma, and liver spots).
  • Changes in skin color can be diagnostic of trauma, such as a bruise, or other changes in physiological condition, such as melasma, and liver spots.
  • As time progresses, blood seepage causes the bruise to darken and spread.
  • As these products are cleared from the area, the bruise disappears.
  • The presence of bruises may be seen in patients with platelet or coagulation disorders.

• Pulled Hamstring and Charley Horse

  • Grade 3 - Bruising due to strained hamstring, horizontal lines show where bandage was.
  • After a few days with grade two and three injuries a large bruise may appear below the injury site caused by the bleeding within the tissues.

• Patellofemoral Stress Syndrome

  • The result is thinning and softening of the articular cartilage under the patella and/or on the medial or lateral femoral condyles, synovial irritation and inflammation, and subchondral bony changes in the distal femur or patella known as "bone bruises".

• Skin Color

  • Finally, the skin may have red, black, blue, purple, and green bruises—all as a result of the escape of blood into surrounding tissues. 
  • As the blood (namely, the hemoglobin) disintegrates and is processed and removed by various cells, it and the bruise changes color with time.

• Hemostasis Disorders

  • People with type 1 and type 2 von Willebrand disease may have the following mild-to-moderate bleeding symptoms: easy bruising, nosebleeds, bleeding from the gums after a dental procedure, heavy menstrual bleeding in women, blood in their stools or urine, and excessive bleeding after a cut or other accident or surgery.
  • Since people with hemophilia do not have the ability to make blood clots, even a small cut can result in severe bleeding, or the smallest bump or jar to the body could cause severe bruising that does not heal for months.

• Ovarian Cysts

  • Strange nodules that feel like bruises under the layer of skin.

• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)

  • Chest compressions are capable of causing significant local blunt trauma, including bruising or fracture of the sternum or ribs.

• Cystitis

  • It is due to bruising of the bladder, usually by abnormally forceful sexual intercourse.

• Hypothesis testing for two proportions exercises

  • Exercise 6.23 introduces a "social experiment" conducted by a TV program that questioned what people do when they see a very obviously bruised woman getting picked on by her boyfriend.