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Definition of Ecchymosis

1. Noun. The purple or black-and-blue area resulting from a bruise.

2. Noun. The escape of blood from ruptured blood vessels into the surrounding tissue to form a purple or black-and-blue spot on the skin.

Definition of Ecchymosis

1. n. A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.

Definition of Ecchymosis

1. [n -MOSES]

Medical Definition of Ecchymosis

1. A small haemorrhagic spot, larger than a petechia, in the skin or mucous membrane forming a nonelevated, rounded or irregular, blue or purplish patch. Origin: Gr. Ekchymosis This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecchymosis

eccentric person eccentric position eccentric relation eccentrochondroplasia eccentropiesis ecce homo ecchondroma ecchondrosis ecchondrotome ecchordosis physaliformis

ecchymoma ecchymose ecchymosed ecchymoses ecchymosis (current term) ecchymosis (current term) ecchymotic ecchymotic ecchymotic mask eccle

Eccles ecclesia ecclesia ecclesiae ecclesial Ecclesiastes ecclesiastic ecclesiastical ecclesiastically ecclesiastical attire

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