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What causes a black eye besides eye injury?
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Blood or pigment: Classically, a "black eye" is a bruise around the eyeball. This is most often caused by injury but some other causes can be a vascular defect, birth mark, malignancy, altered skin pigmentation. Best to get it checked out.
Answered 1/28/2020
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Its bruising: It is due to bleeding under the skin or behind the eye.
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