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Extravasation of blood into the skin, resulting in a nonelevated, rounded or irregular, blue or purplish patch, larger than a petechia.
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- Ecchymoses
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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- National Library of Medicine. Ecchymosis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D004438. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D004438
- Ecchymosis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecchymosis
- Ecchymosis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1322382