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Purpura   Listen
noun
Purpura  n.  
1.
(Med.) A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples.
2.
(Zool.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.





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"Purpura" Quotes from Famous Books



... continuance of the epidemic, the lower classes were chiefly affected. In many cases, the fever set in immediately after recovering from the effects of starvation, and although scurvy preceded the disease, neither it nor purpura was noticed to have occurred as a concomitant symptom. In the Province of Connaught, the epidemic commenced in many places during the year 1846, especially in the Counties of Sligo and Leitrim; in the former locality the young were chiefly attacked; in the latter fever ...
— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke


Words linked to "Purpura" :   Werlhof's disease, purpura hemorrhagica, blood disorder, nonthrombocytopenic purpura, peliosis


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