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ecchymosis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ecchymosis has 2 senses
- ecchymosis(n = noun.state) - the purple or black-and-blue area resulting from a bruise; is a kind of bruise, contusion
- ecchymosis(n = noun.process) - the escape of blood from ruptured blood vessels into the surrounding tissue to form a purple or black-and-blue spot on the skin; is a kind of biological process, organic process
CIDE DICTIONARY
ecchymosis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. , fr. to extravasate; 'ek out of + to pour.].
A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
ecchymosis
Excretion
N excretion, discharge, emanation, exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis, evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap, bloody flux, cacation, coeliac-flux, coeliac- passion, dysentery, perspiration, sweat, subation, exudation, diaphoresis, sewage, eccrinology, saliva, spittle, rheum, ptyalism, salivation, catarrh, diarrhoea, ejecta, egesta, sputa, excreta, lava, exuviae, hemorrhage, bleeding, outpouring.
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