In one study pathologists found that they could conclude only that a yellow bruise was more than 18 hours old.

He walks back to the mirror and looks at the small purple and yellow bruise.

Her forehead was a mottled kaleidoscope of purple and yellow bruises.

It was covered in ugly black and yellow bruises.

She saw the yellow bruise on his side.

There was a fading yellow bruise on one of her cheeks.

He raised his hand to the cut at the side of her eye, the black and yellow bruise there.

The great yellow bruise on one cheek stood out sharply, and her swollen lips were colourless.

The left eye was surrounded with purple and yellow bruises, left by a recent fist.

Then he looked at his own shoulder, which was by now covered with a single huge area of blue, black, and yellow bruise.