NOUN
- a minute red or purple spot on the surface of the skin as the result of tiny hemorrhages of blood vessels in the skin (as in typhoid fever)
How To Use petechia In A Sentence
- The place where you normally hear about petechial hemorrhages is on crime shows. Blind as a bat : Bev Vincent
- The doctor found some petechial hemorrhages in both eyes. Blind as a bat : Bev Vincent
- A newborn boy delivered at full term by ventouse extraction had a widespread petechial rash and a cephalhaematoma.
- Skin hemorrhages in the form of petechiae, ecchymoses, hematomas, and purpura will quickly become apparent.
- Methods Divided the sublingual veins into normal and thick, curved, petechia or purple net-like.
- Features of a severe case include palpebral redness and swelling, obvious congestion of bulbar conjunctiva possibly accompanied with petechial hemorrhages and increase of mucus secretions at the inner canthus.
- We examined patients 'petechiae, purpura, ecchymoses and more, and discussed the differences among those findings and what those might signify. Dr. Elaine Schattner: The Physical Exam Provides More Than Emotional Value
- Conversely, normally slaughtered animals may be treated less gently, which often results in petechial hemorrhages, small pinpoint hemorrhages visible on the skin or other membranes. Archive 2008-01-01
- Symptoms of strep throat may include pharyngeal erythema and swelling, tonsillar exudate, edematous uvula, palatine petechiae, and anterior cervical lymphadenopathy.
- Does it cover the small pinpricks called ‘petechial haemorrhage’?
