different between triturate vs contuse

English

Verb

triturate (third-person singular simple present triturates, present participle triturating, simple past and past participle triturated)

1. To grind to a fine powder, to pulverize.
2. To mix two solid reactants by repeated grinding and stirring.
3. To break up biological tissue into individual cells via passage through a narrow opening such as a hypodermic needle.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula (Chapter X)

     Just over the external jugular vein there were two punctures, not large, but not wholesome-looking. There was no sign of disease, but the edges were white and worn-looking, as if by some trituration.

Related terms

• tritorium
• triturable
• triturated
• trituration
• triturator
• triture

References

• triturate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Verb

triturate

1. second-person plural present indicative of triturare
2. second-person plural imperative of triturare
3. feminine plural of triturato

Anagrams

• tritature

Latin

Verb

tr?t?r?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of tr?t?r?

English

Etymology

From (the participle stem of) Latin contundere (“pound or beat small”), from com- + tundere (“beat, thump”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?tuz/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /k?n?tju?z/

Verb

contuse (third-person singular simple present contuses, present participle contusing, simple past and past participle contused)

1. (transitive) To injure without breaking the skin; to bruise.
   • 1869, St Louis Medical Society, The Medical Archives, vol. III:

     How many uteruses, vaginas and perineums, suppose you, would we have to contuse and lacerate before we acquired the amount of skill and dexterity to which the gentlemen who advocate the forceps have attained?

   • 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:

     His mouth had been struck or kicked. The lips were severely contused, reddened.

   • 2008, Donald Macleod, The Guardian, 2 Nov 2008:

     This would have to be followed by a calculation of 'reasonable force', knowing that any bruising, scratching or contusing would expose me to a charge of assault.

Related terms

• contusion

Translations

Anagrams

• Scouten, consute, countes, econuts

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uze

Adjective

contuse

1. feminine plural of contuso

Noun

contuse f

1. plural of contusa

Verb

contuse

1. third-person singular past historic of contundere
2. feminine plural of contuso

Latin

Participle

cont?se

1. vocative masculine singular of cont?sus