"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 |