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Purpura vs Ecchymosis – What’s the difference?

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Purpura vs Ecchymosis - What's the difference?
As a verb purpura is .

As a noun ecchymosis is a skin discoloration caused by bleeding underneath the skin; a bruise.

purpura

English

Noun

  • (medicine) The appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch when pressure is applied, caused by subdermal bleeding.

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    ecchymosis

    English

    Noun

    (ecchymoses)

  • A skin discoloration caused by bleeding underneath the skin; a bruise.
  • * 1978 , Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine , Routledge 1978, p. 273:
    • A diseased condition of the skin has often been mistaken for stigmatic marks. Such, for instance, is ecchymosis , a discoloration of the skin due to the extravasation of subcutaneous blood.
  • The leaking of blood into the tissues of the body as a result of a bruise.

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