Purpura vs Purpuric - What's the difference?
purpura | purpuric |
(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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(medicine) purple (of spots which appear on the skin); pertaining to or affected with purpura
* 2003 , Christine Léauté-Labrèze and Alain Taïeb, Diagnosis and management of Stevens Johnson syndrome'', in ''Recent Advances in Pediatrics, Volume 20 (edited by Tim J David), Royal Society of Medicine Press, page 140:
(chemistry, not comparable) purple in colour; derived from or forming a substance which is purple; derived from or forming purpuric acid
As a verb purpura
is .As an adjective purpuric is
(medicine) purple (of spots which appear on the skin); pertaining to or affected with purpura.purpura
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purpuric
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(en adjective)- After 1–14 days, skin eruption occurs abruptly, consisting of symmetrical purpuric macules which progress to blisters and areas of epidermal necrosis...
- purpuric acid
- a purpuric salt