wind-contusion love

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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In. surgery, a contusion, such as rupture of the liver or concussion of the brain, unaccompanied by any external mark of violence, supposed to be produced by the air when rapidly displaced by the velocity of a projectile, as a cannon-ball.

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