NOUN
- the purple or black-and-blue area resulting from a bruise
- the escape of blood from ruptured blood vessels into the surrounding tissue to form a purple or black-and-blue spot on the skin
How To Use ecchymosis In A Sentence
- He comments that a patient might talk of a "shiner" whereas a doctor (holy of holies) would speak of a "periorbital ecchymosis," which is true only if you could imagine a doctor referring to cephalalgia instead of a headache or odontalgia instead of a toothache. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 1
- It must be distinguished from ecchymosis the result of a bruise, by making an incision into the part; in the case of hypostasis a few small bloody points of divided arteries will be seen, in the case of ecchymosis the subcutaneous tissues are infiltrated with blood-clot. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
- Ordinarily, this ecchymosis of the horny sole is due to injury of the sensitive sole _immediately beneath_ it. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
- Patients with orbital floor fractures present after facial trauma with periorbital edema and ecchymosis associated with tenderness to palpation along the inferior orbital rim.
- In this case the ecchymosis of the horny sole may be explained by the fact that the escaped blood tends to _gravitate_ to that position. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
- Persons who, in jumping from a height, have pitched on the heel, so as to occasion diastasis (separation) of the bones, ecchymosis of the veins, and contusion of the nerves, - when these symptoms are very violent, there is danger that the parts may sphacelate, and give trouble to the patient during the remainder of his life; for these bones are so constructed as to slip past one another, and the nerves communicate together. Instruments Of Reduction
- The state of the ecchymosis - that's bruising, to you, DC Warburton - supports this. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
- The outlines of the foot disappeared in such a swelling that the entire skin seemed about to burst, and it was covered with ecchymosis, caused by the famous machine. Madame Bovary
- Yes, I suppose the blood has spread; there is what doctors call ecchymosis; give me some clean linen, pour into a glass equal parts of good olive oil and wine dregs, and wash that stain for me. The Forty-Five Guardsmen
- Signs and symptoms may include diplopia, epistaxis, ecchymosis, crepitus, hypesthesia in the infraorbital nerve distribution, and restricted upward gaze secondary to inferior rectus entrapment.
