is a bruise a popped blood vessel
The raised area of a bump or bruise results from blood leaking from injured blood vessels into the tissues, such as muscle, as well as from the body's response to the injury. A purplish, flat bruise that occurs when blood leaks out into the top layers of skin is called an ecchymosis.iny blood vessels near the surface of the skin can burst from a bump, a scrape, or injection-any kind of physical distress. Bruises change color like a mood ring as they mature (from black and blue to green to yellow) and last about one week on the face and two weeks on the body.