concussion
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /kənˈkʌʃən/, /kənˈkʌʃn/
concussion
- A violent collision or shock.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- (uncountable in Commonwealth, countable in North America) An injury to part of the body, most especially the brain, caused by a violent blow, followed by loss of function.
- (legal, civil law) The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value.
- Then concussion, rapine, pilleries, / Their catalogue of accusations fill.
- French: commotion, commotion cérébrale
- German: Gehirnerschütterung (brain), Erschütterung
- Italian: commozione cerebrale
- Portuguese: concussão
- Russian: сотрясе́ние
- Spanish: conmoción cerebral (brain), concusión
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