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a tattoo your blood gives you for free, then takes back
means a discolored, tender mark on the skin caused when an injury breaks small blood vessels beneath the surface without breaking the skin itself.
from From Old English 'brysan,' to crush or pound — the same impulse you feel toward something soft and breakable. It tangled early on with Old French 'bruisier,' to break or shatter, and the two reinforced each other; both likely reach back to a sense of crushing or bruising matter. The word kept its violence: long before it named the purple aftermath on skin, it meant the act of crushing — leaves, fruit, anything that yields its color under pressure.
- color clock
- colors mark how old the injury is
- blood pooling
- it's leaked blood trapped under unbroken skin
- cleanup crew
- immune cells eat the spilled blood away
- yellow stage
- that's bilirubin, same pigment as bruised bananas
- easy bruisers
- thinner skin makes the elderly bruise faster
hockey enforcers 1980s nhl — players like dave schultz took intentional body shots leaving visible bruises as part of play