Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of or pertaining to purpura.
- Having a purple color; also, producing a purple color; specifically, in chem., noting an acid produced by the action of nitric acid upon uric acid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to purpura.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to or designating, a nitrogenous acid contained in uric acid. It is not known in the pure state, but forms well-known purple-red compounds (as murexide), whence its name.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine
purple (of spots which appear on the skin); pertaining to or affected withpurpura - adjective chemistry, not comparable
purple in colour; derived from or forming a substance which is purple; derived from or formingpurpuric acid
Etymologies
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Examples
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When an alkaline solution of murexide is precipitated by an acid, a light shining powder results, called purpuric acid.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Where faux-Poe unleashes all of Lovecraft's bad purpuric habits without adding any of Poe's genius for psychology, faux-Dunsany restrains Lovecraft, forcing him to hit a rhythm, while adding HPL's superior instinct for plot to mitigate Dunsany's occasional Irish tendency to aimless though beautiful blather.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007
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It causes fever, abdominal pain, vomiting and a purpuric rash.
Haemiphilus aegyptius Emma Lurie 2006
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I cause conjunctivits, but what I really enjoy giving to people is Brazilian purpuric fever.
Archive 2006-10-01 Emma Lurie 2006
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It causes fever, abdominal pain, vomiting and a purpuric rash.
Archive 2006-10-01 Emma Lurie 2006
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I cause conjunctivits, but what I really enjoy giving to people is Brazilian purpuric fever.
Haemiphilus aegyptius Emma Lurie 2006
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Two to four days after the onset of illness, the patient shows evidence of severe liver disease, with jaundice and haemorrhagic phenomena, such as vomiting blood, passing blood in the faeces, developing a purpuric rash (a rash caused by bleeding in the skin), and bleeding from the gums.
Chapter 2 2000
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Harsh, dry, yellow skin, purpuric spots with ecchymoses under the skin and mucous membranes, retention or suppression of urine, delirium, convulsions, coma, and death.
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Vépan 9.334 mentions a lady who took 1 1/2 grains and afterward 2 1/2 grains of quinin for neuralgia, and two days afterward her body was covered with purpuric spots, which disappeared in the course of nine days but reappeared after the administration of the drug was resumed.
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Vepan mentions a lady who took 1 1/2 grains and afterward 2 1/2 grains of quinin for neuralgia, and two days afterward her body was covered with purpuric spots, which disappeared in the course of nine days but reappeared after the administration of the drug was resumed.
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