petechiae in English

noun
1
a small red or purple spot caused by bleeding into the skin.
Bruising, petechiae , epistaxis, bleeding gums, excessive menses, retinal hemorrhages, intestinal bleeding, and rarely cerebral hemorrhage may occur as manifestations of the thrombocytopenia.

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1. Mild petechiae in the oculi.

2. Petechiae around the eye, the crushed larynx.

3. Symptoms of the disease are conjunctivitis, purpura, petechiae and occasionally sepsis.

4. It's petechiae in the whites of his eyes.

5. In all instances the cerebral hyperemia, edema and globular petechiae were most prominent.

6. Petechiae on his face and the whites of his eyes, and this bruising around his neck...

7. It is often said that petechiae are typical findings in Asphyxial deaths, but this is NOT true

8. This bleeding can take the form of pinpoint dots (petechiae), larger, flat areas (purpura), or broad areas of Bruising (ecchymosis).

9. Of the nine H pylori negative uraemic patients, two had oesophagitis and one had scattered petechiae in stomach and duodenum.

10. The skin should be examined for dryness, scaliness, atrophy, petechiae, and ecchymoses, and the mouth for angular stomatitis, glossitis, swollen or bleeding gums, and decayed teeth.

11. The important complications of arteriography observed were: thrombosis of the carotid artery and jugular vein; hemorrhage into the tissues about the punctured vessels with a concomitant edema of the aditus laryngis; and those changes which were induced by a spasm of the cerebral arteriole with subsequent petechiae, occurring after injection of the contrast medium.