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n. A condition characterized by hemorrhages in the skin and mucous membranes that result in the appearance of purplish spots or patches.

n. The appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch when pressure is applied, caused by subdermal bleeding.

n. A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples.

n. A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.

n. In medicine, an eruption of small purple spots and patches, caused by extravasation of blood in the skin; the purples.

n. [capitalized] A genus of gastropods, typical of the family Purpuridæ.

n. any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding

"The eyelids often undergo extreme inflammatory and dropsical swelling in urticaria (nettlerash, surfeit) and in the general inflammatory dropsy known as purpura hemorrhagica."

blood disease    blood disorder   

purpura simplex    malignant purpura    purpura pulicosa    purpura variolosa    purpura nervosa    purpura hemorrhagica    purpura nautica    purpura urticans    purpura papulosa    purpura fulminans   

purpura hemorrhagica    idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura    thrombocytopenic purpura    werlhof's disease    nonthrombocytopenic purpura   

lato    clavo    hypersomnia    infantilism    erysipelas    pyaemia    cardiomyopathy    beriberi    septicemia    amputations