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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A localized swelling filled with blood resulting from a break in a blood vessel.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In pathology, a swelling filled with extravasated blood. Also hematome, hæmatome.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of a broken blood vessel.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Med.) A localised leakage of blood from the blood vessels into nearby tissues, usually confined within a tissue or organ; especially, a local swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin, which may clot and discolor the affected area.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a localized swelling filled with blood

Etymologies

  1. From New Latin (Wiktionary)

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