ecchymose
English
Pronunciation
Verb
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- (medicine) To discolour by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ecchymose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἐκχύμωσις (ekkhúmōsis, “bruise”), from ἐκχέω (ekkhéō, “I flow out”)
Pronunciation
Noun
ecchymose f (plural ecchymoses)
- bruise (mark on body), ecchymosis
Further reading
- “ecchymose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.