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单词 purpura
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Definition of purpura in English:

purpura

noun ˈpəːpjʊrəˈpərp(j)ərə
mass nounMedicine
  • 1A rash of purple spots on the skin caused by internal bleeding from small blood vessels.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Inhibition of platelet adhesion and aggregation, prolonged bleeding time, purpura, postoperative wound hemorrhage
    • As described in the literature, the patient had a preceding upper respiratory infection, followed several days later by headache, myalgias, purpura, and fever.
    • One or more of the following skin lesions were seen in 70% of all cases: purpura, macular or papular erythematous rash, urticaria, and subcutaneous nodules.
    • Many of these patients had edema, purpura, or ecchymosis.
    • Adverse effects of warfarin include haemorrhage, hypersensitivity and skin rashes, alopecia, and purpura.
    Synonyms
    spots, skin eruption, breakout
    1. 1.1with modifier Any of a number of diseases characterized by such a rash.
      psychogenic purpura
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She was diagnosed with a thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura like syndrome and was treated with daily plasma exchange and steroids.
      • In 1988, she presented with idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura and anemia.
      • Prone positioning did not worsen pre-existing skin injury (graft-vs-host disease and purpura fulminans).
      • Another immune thrombocytopenia is posttransfusion purpura, where immune destruction of both transfused and recipient platelets is seen, usually beginning 5 to 12 days after transfusion.
      • She developed purpura fulminans and compartment syndrome in her limbs, requiring fasciotomies.

Derivatives

  • purpuric

  • adjective ˌpəːˈpjʊərɪkpərˈpjʊrɪk
    Medicine
    • Gigantean (larger and fewer lesions), pustular, purpuric, or vesicular pityriasis rosea occurs in rare cases.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Children with disseminated intravascular coagulopathy are generally quite ill and may present with extensive purpuric lesions and petechiae, as well as multifocal hemorrhage.
      • Depending on their size, purpuric lesions are traditionally classified as petechiae (pinpoint hemorrhages less than 2 mm in greatest diameter), purpura or ecchymoses.
      • Almost all of the patients with this type of vasculitis have cutaneous findings, typically erythematous macules or purpuric lesions.
      • These lesions included papular, urticarial, purpuric, pustular, and eczematoid changes, such as papular urticaria.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Latin, from Greek porphura 'purple'.

 
 

Definition of purpura in US English:

purpura

nounˈpərp(j)ərəˈpərp(y)ərə
Medicine
  • 1A rash of purple spots on the skin caused by internal bleeding from small blood vessels.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As described in the literature, the patient had a preceding upper respiratory infection, followed several days later by headache, myalgias, purpura, and fever.
    • One or more of the following skin lesions were seen in 70% of all cases: purpura, macular or papular erythematous rash, urticaria, and subcutaneous nodules.
    • Adverse effects of warfarin include haemorrhage, hypersensitivity and skin rashes, alopecia, and purpura.
    • Many of these patients had edema, purpura, or ecchymosis.
    • Inhibition of platelet adhesion and aggregation, prolonged bleeding time, purpura, postoperative wound hemorrhage
    Synonyms
    spots, skin eruption, breakout
    1. 1.1with modifier Any of several diseases characterized by a purple rash.
      psychogenic purpura
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Prone positioning did not worsen pre-existing skin injury (graft-vs-host disease and purpura fulminans).
      • She was diagnosed with a thrombotic thrombocytopenia purpura like syndrome and was treated with daily plasma exchange and steroids.
      • She developed purpura fulminans and compartment syndrome in her limbs, requiring fasciotomies.
      • In 1988, she presented with idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura and anemia.
      • Another immune thrombocytopenia is posttransfusion purpura, where immune destruction of both transfused and recipient platelets is seen, usually beginning 5 to 12 days after transfusion.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Latin, from Greek porphura ‘purple’.

 
 
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