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Ecchymosis   Listen
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Ecchymosis  n.  (pl. ecchymoses)  (Med.) A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.






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"Ecchymosis" Quotes from Famous Books



... patients, he says, suffered from ecchymosis and contusions. In plain, unprofessional language, they were beaten black and blue. That is such a result as usually follows a few blows from a boxer's fist or from an ordinary walking-stick. But when the weapon employed is a rough iron bar weighing upwards of twenty-nine pounds, when the number ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 • Various

... suppose the blood has spread; there is what doctors call ecchymosis; give me some clean linen, pour into a glass equal parts of good olive oil and wine dregs, and wash that stain ...
— The Forty-Five Guardsmen • Alexandre Dumas



Words linked to "Ecchymosis" :   contusion, organic process, biological process



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