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What does ecchymosis mean?

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Noun
  1. A skin discoloration caused by bleeding underneath the skin; a bruise.
  2. The leaking of blood into the tissues of the body as a result of a bruise.
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Actually, after this intervention, there is a consecutive edema and also ecchymosis.
Less frequent reactions, including ecchymosis, deep vein thrombosis and hematomas, have also occurred.
In the muscular substance of the heart, under the endocardium, there is almost constantly noticed ecchymosis.
This latter varies in width, and still later a halo of ecchymosis half an inch or more in diameter surrounds the original wound.
Body as a whole: allergic reactions including urticaria, ecchymosis, angioedema.
On admission to hospital 3 weeks after the start of atorvastatin therapy he had a petechial rash and ecchymosis.

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