petechial
See also: pétéchial
English
Etymology
From New Latin petechialis. By surface analysis, petechia + -al.
Adjective
petechial (comparative more petechial, superlative most petechial)
- (medicine) Characterised by, pertaining to, or resembling petechiae (small, nonraised haemorrhages on the skin).
- 1750, John Huxham, chapter 8, in An Essay on Fevers:
- Of putrid, malignant, petechial Fevers.
- 2001, M. W. Service, editor, Encyclopedia of Arthropod-transmitted Infections:
- Petechial haemorrhages may appear in the conjunctivae and ecchymotic haemorrhages on the ventral surface of the tongue.
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Anagrams
- epithecal