purpura
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of purpura
1680–90; < New Latin, special use of Latin purpura. See purple
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Cablivi addresses a rare blood clotting disorder, acquired or immune-mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, Sanofi said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
These ailments include myocarditis, neuromyelitis optica, primary membranous nephropathy and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 8, 2021
Complications such as immune thrombocytopenic purpura have been reported in Zika cases before, but patients usually recover.
From MSNBC ● Apr. 29, 2016
The depiction of things like fever and thrombocytic cytopenic purpura are not nearly as cinematically interesting as a virus that turns you into a greasepaint-caked harridan with a mindless craving for human flesh.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2011
Those general symptoms, slight or profound, which are sometimes associated, primarily or secondarily, with the cutaneous disease, as, for example, the systemic disturbance in leprosy, pemphigus, and purpura hemorrhagica.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Stelwagon, Henry Weightman
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