This condition is referred to as contusio cordis (from Latin for bruising of the heart ).

When Wolfowitz was finally pushed out after a bruising battle, Bank staff were beside themselves with joy.

There is often a large amount of swelling around the jaw area, and in some cases bruising.

Last week s bruising battle over the medium term future of the Union s budget has confirmed that verdict with a vengeance.

Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth.

Behold, a spirit takes him, he suddenly cries out, and it convulses him so that he foams, and it hardly departs from him, bruising him severely.

And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.

She notes that after her husband went to visit her son in detention, he came back in a state of shock, as her son was black from bruising.

However, an autopsy found 24 external wounds on his body, three fractured ribs and a broken rib which caused bruising to the heart, indicating that he had been tortured.

Lamech said to his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice. You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, for I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for bruising me.