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Purpura
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Purpura has 1 sense
- purpura(n = noun.state) peliosis - any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding; Array is a kind of blood disease, blood disorder
has particulars: nonthrombocytopenic purpura, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, purpura hemorrhagica, thrombocytopenic purpura, werlhof's disease
CIDE DICTIONARY
Purpura, n. [L., purple, purple fish: cf. F. purpura. See Purple.].
- A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples. Dunglison. [1913 Webster]
- A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Purpura, n.
1 a disease characterized by purple or livid spots on the skin, due to internal bleeding from small blood vessels.
2 any mollusc of the genus Purpura, some of which yield a purple dye.
1 a disease characterized by purple or livid spots on the skin, due to internal bleeding from small blood vessels.
2 any mollusc of the genus Purpura, some of which yield a purple dye.
Derivative
purpuric adj.
Etymology
L f. Gk porphura purple
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