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Definition of Purpura hemorrhagica
1. Noun. Purpura associated with a reduction in circulating blood platelets which can result from a variety of factors.
Generic synonyms: Autoimmune Disease, Autoimmune Disorder, Peliosis, Purpura
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purpura Hemorrhagica
Literary usage of Purpura hemorrhagica
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"PURPURA hemorrhagica is a condition that is characterized in its severer forms
by hemorrhage ... purpura hemorrhagica may occur as an idiopathic disease, ..."
2. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1912)
"The hemorrhages which appear in different parts of the body in association with
the disease cause it to somewhat resemble purpura hemorrhagica of animals; ..."
3. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1918)
"The blood-clot in hemophilia is firm and retracts in normal fashion, while it
does not retract and is soft in purpura hemorrhagica. ..."
4. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1905)
"... in leukemia and purpura hemorrhagica that are of much clinical and pathologic
importance, and to inquire somewhat into the nature of these disturbances, ..."
5. Handbook of Therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein (1918)
"purpura hemorrhagica This name should not be applied to every disease in which
... Duke has shown that in all of the cases of purpura hemorrhagica studied ..."
6. Handbook of Therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein (1920)
"purpura hemorrhagica This name should not be applied to every disease in which
... Duke has shown that in all of the cases of purpura hemorrhagica studied ..."
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