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Ecchymotic vs Petechial - What's the difference?

ecchymotic | petechial |

As adjectives the difference between ecchymotic and petechial

is that ecchymotic is pertaining to ecchymosis while petechial is petechial.

ecchymotic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Pertaining to ecchymosis.
    • (Webster 1913)

    petechial

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (medicine) characterised by, pertaining to, or resembling petechiae (small, nonraised haemorrhages on the skin)
  • * 1750 , John Huxham, An Essay on Fevers :
    • Chap. VIII. Of putrid, malignant, petechial Fevers.
  • * 2001 , M. W. Service (editor), Encyclopedia of Arthropod-transmitted Infections :
    • Petechial haemorrhages may appear in the conjunctivae and ecchymotic haemorrhages on the ventral surface of the tongue.