Perpura

A condition characterized by hemorrhage into the skin. Appearance of the lesions varies with the type of purpura, the duration of the lesions, and the acuteness of the onset. The color is first red, gradually darkens to purple, fades to a brownish yellow, and usually disappears in 2 or 3 weeks; color of residual permanent pigmentation depends largely on the type of unabsorbed pigment of the extravasated blood; extravasations may occur also into the mucous membranes and internal organs. Syn: peliosis.

(Note from Eddie - Sounds like a bruise to me)

Origin

[L. fr. G. porphyra, purple]

• acute vascular purpura
• allergic purpura
• anaphylactoid purpura
• purpura angioneurotica
• purpura annularis telangiectodes
• equine nonthrombocytopenic purpura
• factitious purpura
• fibrinolytic purpura
• purpura fulminans
• purpura hemorrhagica
• Henoch's purpura
• Henoch-Schönlein purpura
• hyperglobulinemic purpura
• idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
• immune thrombocytopenic purpura
• purpura iodica
• purpura nervosa
• nonthrombocytopenic purpura
• psychogenic purpura
• purpura pulicans
• purpura rheumatica
• Schönlein's purpura
• purpura senilis
• purpura simplex
• purpura symptomatica
• thrombocytopenic purpura
• thrombopenic purpura
• thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
• purpura urticans
• Waldenström's purpura