What is a Bruise? You’ll fall off your bike, bang your shin on the coffee table (which you swore you’d be moving months ago), or run into a wall and wake up with a bruise. A bruise is caused by damaging or fracturing tiny blood vessels as a result of damage to the skin (be it bumping into something or hitting yourself with a hammer). The elevated area of a bump or bruise is the result of blood leakage into the tissues from these injured blood vessels, as well as…
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