Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Purple spots on the skin, not disappearing on pressure, caused by hemorrhage into the cutaneous tissues.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Med.) Small crimson, purple, or livid spots, like flea-bites, due to extravasation of blood, which appear on the skin in malignant fevers, etc.
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- noun Plural form of
petechia .
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Examples
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The way, I guess, that they scale the condition of the patient is through the amount of petechiae, which is blood vessels that have been broken in the eyes, under the eyes, on the eyelid.
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She said she suffered several beatings and once almost died of strangulation when Allen put his hands on her throat and squeezed until the capillaries in her eyes burst, peppering the whites with the tiny dots of blood called petechiae.
Every Breath You Take Ann Rule 2000
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Symptoms include; a fever with muscle and joint pains, and a hemorrhagic rash of characteristically bright red pinpoint spots, known as petechiae can occur later during the illness and is associated with thrombocytopenia.
WN.com - Articles related to Florida seen at risk from Caribbean dengue epidemic 2010
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Symptoms include; a fever with muscle and joint pains, and a hemorrhagic rash of characteristically bright red pinpoint spots, known as petechiae can occur later during the illness and is associated with thrombocytopenia.
WN.com - Articles related to Florida seen at risk from Caribbean dengue epidemic 2010
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Symptoms include; a fever with muscle and joint pains, and a hemorrhagic rash of characteristically bright red pinpoint spots, known as petechiae can occur later during the illness and is associated with thrombocytopenia.
WN.com - Articles related to Florida seen at risk from Caribbean dengue epidemic 2010
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Paler skin and development of spots under the skin due to bleeding (known as petechiae or ecchymoses)
unknown title 2009
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Paler skin and development of spots under the skin due to bleeding (known as petechiae or ecchymoses)
unknown title 2009
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We examined patients 'petechiae, purpura, ecchymoses and more, and discussed the differences among those findings and what those might signify.
Dr. Elaine Schattner: The Physical Exam Provides More Than Emotional Value 2010
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That particular combination—fever, petechiae, adrenal hemorrhage, septic shock—had been in medical textbooks for almost one hundred years.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
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His skin darkened with petechiae, pinpoint hemorrhages that showed his blood was clotting abnormally as he sank into shock.
SUPERBUG MARYN MCKENNA 2010
chained_bear commented on the word petechiae
"'I've never seen anything so red in my life.' Not raised; I couldn't feel the individual spots, though I could see them at close range. Not a rash as such; I thought it must be petechiae, pinpoint hemorrhages under the skin. But so many of them...."
—Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross (NY: Bantam Dell, 2001), 1151
January 29, 2010