petechialadj.

1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Of Feavers in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) 117 Her Urine was thick and red; also petechial red spots (as in the rest) were conspicuous.

1691 A. Brown Vindicatory Schedule 161 And Donckers that Famous Practitioner in Cologne in his treatise of the Petechial Fever, which is the same with a Malignant Fever, does follow much the same Method.

1710 T. Fuller Pharmacopœia Extemporanea 129 In..petechial Fevers..its accounted destructive.

1842 E. S. Abdy tr. R. von Falkenstein Water Cure (1843) 16 Attacked by spotted or petechial fever with violent epistaxis.

1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 1124 True petechiae are to be distinguished from the characteristic eruption of typhus fever, which is often called petechial.

1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xvii. 225 Chronic meningococcal septicæmia is characterized by recurrent pyrexia, muscle- and joint-pains and a rash, often petechial, over the limbs and back of the body.

1995 B. Maitland Marx Sisters 6 Petechial haemorrhages don't prove anything. They can be a sign of smothering, but they're also seen in other conditions of terminal lack of oxygen and congestion.