Purpura Synonyms

pûrpə-rə, -pyə-
Any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. peliosis

Words Related to Purpura

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. thrombocytopenic
  2. thrombocytopenia
  3. glomerulonephritis
  4. eosinophilia
  5. nephritis
  6. henoch-schonlein
  7. leukopenia
  8. infectious mononucleosis
  9. iritis
  10. uveitis
  11. hemolytic
  12. panniculitis
  13. subacute
  14. sarcoidosis

Purpura Sentence Examples

  • It is the adrectal gland, and in the genera Murex and Purpura secretes a colourless liquid which turns purple upon exposure to the atmosphere, and was used by the ancients as a dye.

  • Fusus, Pyrula, Purpura, Murex, Nassa, Trophon, Voluta, &c. The float of the pelagic Janthina, to which the egg-capsules are attached, probably is also formed by the secretion of the pedal gland.

  • In some cases all the eggs in a capsule develop; in other cases one egg only in a capsule (Neritina), or a small proportion (Purpura, Buccinum), advance in development; the rest are arrested either after the first process of cell-division (cleavage) or before that process.

  • It commonly results from injury, as the tearing or cutting of a blood-vessel, but certain forms result from disease, as in scurvy and purpura.

  • Formerly it was used, as the origin of the name shows, of the deep crimson colour called in Latin Purpura, purpureus and in Greek 7rop41upa, irop4 peos (from 7ropcupecv, to grow dark, especially used of the sea).

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