Ecchymosis vs Congestion - What's the difference?
ecchymosis | congestion |
A skin discoloration caused by bleeding underneath the skin; a bruise.
* 1978 , Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine , Routledge 1978, p. 273:
The leaking of blood into the tissues of the body as a result of a bruise.
The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
An excess of traffic.
(medicine) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hypermic, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.
(medicine) An excess of mucus or fluid in the respiratory system; congestion of the lungs, or nasal congestion.
As nouns the difference between ecchymosis and congestion
is that ecchymosis is a skin discoloration caused by bleeding underneath the skin; a bruise while congestion is congestion.ecchymosis
English
Noun
(ecchymoses)- 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.
