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Definition of Petechia
1. 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).
Definition of Petechia
1. Noun. a small spot, especially on an organ, caused by bleeding underneath the skin ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Petechia
1. a small hemorrhagic spot on a body surface [n -CHIAE]
Medical Definition of Petechia
1. A pinpoint, nonraised, perfectly round, purplish red spot caused by intradermal or submucous haemorrhage. Compare: ecchymosis. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petechia
Literary usage of Petechia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Midwifery: Including the Diseases of Women and Children by John Burns (1837)
"Purpura, or petechia sine febre, is a disease not uncommon with children,
particularly those who live in confined houses, or are fed on poor or improper ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1886)
"Throat streaked heavily; the under tail-coverts are also streaked ; otherwise
like D. petechia, HABITAT. Barbuda, Antigua, Porto Rico, and St. Thomas. ..."
3. On the nature and treatment of softening of the brain by Richard Rowland (1851)
"... resembling petechia) on the surface of the brain, being either exuded thickly
in one or more patches, or spread over a larger surface. ..."
4. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"Of a deeper yellow than petechia, and equally large, is the golden warbler of the
... This form, first known from St. Bartholomew, is Dendroica petechia ..."
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