contrecoupn.
/ˈkɒntrəkuː/ 1. ‘Opposition, a repulse in the pursuit of any object’ (Jamieson).
2. Surgery. The effect of a blow, as an injury, fracture, produced exactly opposite, or at some distance from, the part actually struck.
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1809 S. Cooper Dict. Pract. Surg. 297/2 The solution of continuity,..is..at other times the result of contre-coup.
1870 T. Holmes Syst. Surg. (ed. 2) II. 316 The one..is a direct contusion, the other a contusion by contre-coup of the brain substance.
1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Contre-coup..is often very severe in the skull, for instance, the bone may be fractured on the opposite side to the seat of injury.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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