Definition of Ecchymotic

1. a. Pertaining to ecchymosis.

Definition of Ecchymotic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to ecchymosis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ecchymotic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Ecchymotic

1. Characterised by ecchymosis. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecchymotic

eccentricity
eccentrick
eccentrics
eccentrochondroplasia
eccentropiesis
ecchondroma
ecchondrosis
ecchondrotome
ecchordosis physaliformis
ecchymoma
ecchymose
ecchymosed
ecchymoses
ecchymosis
ecchymotic (current term)
ecchymotic mask
eccle
ecclesia
ecclesiae
ecclesial
ecclesiarch
ecclesiarchs
ecclesiarchy
ecclesiast
ecclesiastic
ecclesiastical
ecclesiastical attire
ecclesiastical benefice
ecclesiastical calendar

Literary usage of Ecchymotic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Clinical Lectures on Senile and Chronic Diseases by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"ecchymotic spots.—Cerebral softening.— Deposits of fibrin in spleen, liver, kidneys.—Various complications of acute articular rheumatism. ..."

2. Contributions Relating to the Causation and Prevention of Disease, and to by Austin Flint, United States Sanitary Commission (1867)
"Essential Pathology. — General Debility the First Manifestation. — Symptoms in Advanced Cases. — Symptoms those of Exhaustion. — ecchymotic (Edema. ..."

3. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association. (1916)
"... while in the right side under the skin they show in spots; the mucous membrane of trachea ecchymotic in the thoracic portion; ecchymotic, ..."

4. A Treatise on Plague Dealing with the Historical, Epidemiological, Clinical by William John Simpson (1905)
"The petechiae and ecchymotic patches probably correspond to the tokens in the Great ... The pustules usually commence as ecchymotic or petechial spots, ..."

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