petechia
/pɪˈtiːkɪə
/noun (plural petechiae /pɪˈtiːkɪiː/) Medicine
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....
- On day + 5, the patient developed fever, pneumonia, upper and lower respiratory and upper gastrointestinal bleeding, and diffuse skin petechiae.
- The external autopsy examination revealed anasarca with ascites, jaundice, diffuse petechiae and purpura, and a presacral decubitus ulcer.
Derivatives
petechial
- In the third of these 3 patients, an adult who died with a petechial rash and underlying diabetes, clostridial meningitis was diagnosed.
- Rashes can be categorized as maculopapular (centrally and peripherally distributed), petechial, diffusely erythematous with desquamation, vesiculobullous-pustular and nodular.
- Severe respiratory illness, petechial hemorrhages of the skin and bowel, anemia, and leukopenia justified the name ‘alimentary toxic aleukia.’
Origin
Late 18th century: modern Latin, from Italian petecchia, denoting a freckle or spot on the face, from Latin petigo 'scab, eruption'.
- non-solid colour
- non-soluble
- non-solvency
- non-solvent
- non-speak
- nonspeaking
- non-speaks
- non-specialist
- nonspecie
- non-specific
- non-specificity
- non-specific urethritis
- non-speech
- non-spiritual
- nonstaining
- non-standard
- non-starter
- non-state actor
- non-status
- non-stellar
- non-steroidal
- non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent
- non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
- non-stick
- non-stimulating