Ecchymoses and extravasations of blood are found in the skin and mucous membranes.
These ecchymoseswere not caused by the cord, for the latter was placed below the hyoid bone and this bone was not broken.
His experiments appear to show that subpleural ecchymoses occur as a result of violent and repeated efforts to breathe.
All such may, however, be calledecchymoses or hematomata.
The ecchymoses were found in nearly all the cases.
The larynx, trachea, and bronchi had regular congestion and scarlet ecchymoses in one case characteristic of asphyxia, and there was muddy water in the stomach.
Harvey says the LUNGS are congested in over seven-eighths of the cases; emphysematous in a few; and subpleural ecchymoses present in a few.
He thinks the subpleural ecchymosesvaluable signs of asphyxia.
The face and upper parts of the trunk were generally light red to a deep violet or black color, with punctated blackish ecchymoses on the face, neck, and upper part of chest.
Devergie remarked that on the bodies of those drowned ecchymoses are often hidden for a time on account of the sodden state of the skin, and they appear only after the water has evaporated, which may require some days.
After death the appearances are similar to those from asphyxia; in addition to which there are small ecchymoses in the stomach and intestines; the salivary glands and pancreas are also injected.
At the cardiac end there was a large vermilion-red patch, interspersed here and there with small dark ecchymoses (spoken of by Dr.
The only appearance of note seen at the autopsy was a congestion of the grey matter in the brain; the kidneys and liver were also congested, and there were ecchymoses in the kidneys.
Hyperaemia of the lungs, with ecchymosesand pneumonic patches with increased secretion of the bronchial tubes.
On examining the organs after death, the brain and spinal cord were very bloodless; there were ecchymoses in the lungs; but little else characteristic.
The liver, in all the experiments, was large and gorged with black and fluid blood; there were ecchymoses in the lungs and venous congestion.
In the case of suicide just detailed, the mucous membrane of the stomach was much ecchymosed; over the whole were strewn little white grains, sticking to the mucous membrane, and there were also ecchymoses in the duodenum.
In the stomach, when the fluid has been swallowed, the mucous membrane is sometimes reddened diffusely, and occasionally shows ecchymoses of a punctiform character.
The autopsy showed congestion of the lungs, ecchymoses of the kidney, and much blood in the liver and spleen.
At this time small subconjunctival ecchymoseswere found.
There were remains of epistaxis and blood in the right ear, not proved to be due to otorrhagia; blue-black ecchymoses of both eyelids; and small ecchymoses of the bulbar conjunctiva of the right eye.
His cheek was covered with ecchymoses but without wound.
He was not wounded and showed no ecchymoseseither then or later.
Even when the occurrence of passive hemorrhages and of ecchymoses of various tissues indicates marked dyscrasia of the blood, there will not rarely be found firm white clots in one or other of the cavities of the heart.
Vibices and extensive ecchymoses of the surface are of much more grave import, and in cases where fatal sinking is threatened they may appear accompanying a purplish lividity of the countenance.
Ecchymoses of the membranes are occasionally observed, and in one of our cases extensive meningeal hemorrhage was found.
There were numerous ecchymoses of both layers of the pericardium.
There are also sometimes found circumscribed ecchymoses or purpuric patches, while the edges of ulcers or open wounds are generally of a blackish or dirty yellow color.
Superficial ecchymoses are, however, quite common, especially so over the solid viscera; and more rarely effusions of blood have been found in the subperitoneal connective tissue, involving the muscular or glandular tissues beneath.
The heart-muscle had undergone fatty degeneration in 6, and was the seat of ecchymoses of the size of a pin's head in 3.
Patches of congestion and occasionally submucous ecchymoses may be observed, and croupous exudation occurs here somewhat more frequently than in the small intestine.
The disease is further characterized by ecchymosesand minute apoplectic effusions, and by the absence of pus-formation.
Ecchymoses also are found in the mucous membrane of the pelvis of the kidney, in the bladder, and indeed all along the genito-urinary tract.
A knowledge of the circumstances will serve to distinguish purpura simplex from the petechiae and small ecchymoses produced by fleas, by diminished atmospheric pressure, by coughing, in the course of Bright's disease, etc.
With the secondary hemorrhagic effusions and ecchymoses that occur in conditions of profound alterations of the blood and blood-vessels in cases of malignant small-pox, scarlatina, typhus fever, etc.
The same condition often produces ecchymoses and hemorrhagic erosions in spots.
The endo- and pericardium are studded with ecchymoses or marked by hemorrhagic extravasations, and the pleura presents similar appearances, but not to the same extent.
Scheby-Buch has shown the difficulties often opposed to the differentiation of purpuric lesions and ecchymoses due to violence.
Ecchymoses may be present in large number, with exudates of false membrane, which Beaumont describes as aphthous.
Ecchymoses of rather small size are distributed over the stomach and intestines.
In some instances ecchymoses are discovered under the capsule, and rarely hemorrhagic extravasations in the substance of the liver.
The brain does not always show evidences of change, but in many instances there are ecchymoses of the meninges; the walls of the vessels are affected by fatty degeneration.
Where the {193} ecchymoses are larger and upon exposed parts of the body, the diagnosis from the lesions alone becomes impossible, and due consideration of all concomitant circumstances is essential.
The gums transude blood, and wherever pressure is brought to bear on the integument ecchymoses follow.
No peritonitis, or ascites, or ecchymoses in the mucous membranes were noted in the autopsies made on sheep by Ruedi.
Only once were ecchymoses under the endocardium seen.
The stomach walls showed ecchymoses and the blood vessels of the brain, the spinal cord, and the abdominal vessels were dilated.
This writer's case took place after a fever, and no tumefaction of the gums nor ecchymoses of the skin are mentioned as occurring in it.
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