ecchymosis is extravasation of blood into the tissues underlying the skin.
Some of the patients, he says, suffered from ecchymosis and contusions.
At the seat of rupture there is tenderness and swelling, and there may be ecchymosis.
Sphacelus ultimately takes place at the points of ecchymosis.
This latter varies in width, and still later a halo of ecchymosis half an inch or more in diameter surrounds the original wound.
This, at first contracted, later becomes somewhat relaxed, while in many cases a small halo of ecchymosis develops around it.
Intra-orbital bleeding, subconjunctival hæmorrhage with proptosis and ecchymosis of the lids were usually well marked.
There was marked proptosis, subconjunctival ecchymosis, swelling and ecchymosis of the upper lid, and ptosis.
Collapse of globe, proptosis, subconjunctival hæmorrhage, œdema and ecchymosis of lids.
The result of this was evidenced later by the presence of localised oval patches of ecchymosis.
ecchymosis ec·chy·mo·sis (ěk'ĭ-mō'sĭs)
n. pl. ec·chy·mo·ses (-sēz')
The passage of blood from ruptured blood vessels into subcutaneous tissue, marked by a purple discoloration of the skin.