| Newly formed edge epithelium, often violaceous in color, indicates stimulated healing. |
| Spores globose, usually some shade of umber or olivaceous, rarely violaceous. |
| This is seen in longstanding sarcoidosis, in which asymptomatic, violaceous nodules are seen on nose, fingers, and ears. |
| Osler's nodes are painful, swollen, violaceous subcutaneous nodules occurring mainly in the pulp of the fingers and toes. |
| Lividity is distributed dorsally, is the usual violaceous color, and blanches with light pressure. |
| Grossly, the surface of the lungs may show flat to slightly raised disk-shaped red to violaceous plaques confined to the visceral pleura. |
