Ecchymosis then takes place under the cellular coat, which becomes thickened, and incorporated with, and strengthened by, the surrounding tissues; this is the incipient state of an aneurismal tumour.
The ecchymosis which attends this operation, and which is sometimes considerable, demands no particular treatment: no inconvenience arises from it, and it commonly disappears in a few weeks.
If placed on the temples, they can produce very little benefit; if on the outer surface of the eyelids, ecchymosis follows, on account of the extreme looseness of the cellular tissue in that situation.
The child, which was her first, was healthy, well nourished, and normal, with the exception of a slight ecchymosis of the parietal bone on the left side.
There was also suffusion and ecchymosis about the neck and shoulder.
There was, however, a large ecchymosis of the lumbar region, and he had felt violent lumbar pains.
He complained of pain in the back, though no wound or ecchymosiscould be found there, nor any painfulness of spinous processes or irregularity of bone.
Ecchymosis of right upper eyelid: he had fallen (his sheep had pushed him over!
There was slight ecchymosis about the left iliac crest.
Intra-orbital bleeding, subconjunctival hæmorrhage with proptosis and ecchymosis of the lids were usually well marked.
Gravitation Ecchymosis in a case of Hæmothorax, accompanying fracture of three ribs from within.
The openings in the small intestine were not as a rule difficult to find, on account of the ecchymosis which surrounded them.
A considerable amount of oedema and ecchymosis of the scrotum developed, but no extravasation of urine.
Early coagulation, I think, accounted for the usual absence of gravitationecchymosis as a sign.
There was some tenderness over the ribs from the fifth to the ninth in the axillary line, and on the ninth day some gravitation ecchymosis appeared over the same region.
No restriction in the movements of the upper extremity, and no subcutaneous ecchymosis developed, but the patient was positive as to the tumour having greatly enlarged.
It shows the localised ecchymosisas seen from the inner surface, here rather more extensive from the fact that the blood spreads more readily in the submucous tissue.
This latter varies in width, and still later a halo of ecchymosis half an inch or more in diameter surrounds the original wound.
When the exit was situated in the frontal region ecchymosis often extended to the eyelids and down the face, while in the occipital region similar ecchymosis was often seen at the back of the neck.
I think the rarity of the last sign must have been due to the early coagulation of the blood, and its retention by the pleura, as I saw well-marked gravitation ecchymosis in one or two cases of mediastinal hæmorrhage.
There was marked proptosis, subconjunctival ecchymosis, swelling and ecchymosis of the upper lid, and ptosis.
He describes also a condition of ecchymosis and oozing of blood from certain red spots of the gastric mucous membrane, and when thus limited the constitutional symptoms experienced by the patient were correspondingly slight.
This discolouration was not accompanied by any thickening of the tissues, nor by ulceration, and appeared rather the result of ecchymosis or haemorrhage.
The term ecchymosis does not appear appropriate to the discoloured condition of parts observed in the commencement of this disease; the blood is not at first extravasated from the vessels, but coagulated in them.
Ocular ecchymosis occurs in a small proportion of cases, especially of the graver types.
The lungs are generally found slightly congested, but there may be some ecchymosis in exceptional cases.
The small intestines exhibit patches of congestion or ecchymosis less frequently than the stomach, though it is usual to find injection of the mucous membrane, especially of the lower portion, in cases where there has been diarrhoea.
These extravasations are usually small, but Cormack reports a case where one-third of the mucous membrane of the stomach was the seat of ecchymosis and extravasation.
Ecchymosis of the skin extending half-way up the leg.
Extensive purplish ecchymosis of the inner face of the arm; no fever.
If early examination of the ear is made, coagulated blood may be found in the meatus or upon the membrane, or ecchymosis may be visible on the latter.
There is usually considerable ecchymosis and swelling in the hollows below and behind the malleoli; and the malleoli appear to be nearer the level of the sole.
There is exophthalmos and fixation of the globe, with redness, swelling and tenderness of the eyelids, and congestion and ecchymosis of the conjunctiva.
Should ecchymosis occur, obliterate the color by an application of cosmetics.
Ecchymosis is an extravasation of blood into the areolar tissues, forming a bruised place caused principally by a blow from a heavy instrument or missile.
If, therefore, we cut into such an ecchymosis after death, we find extravasated blood or the coloring matter of the blood, in the form of pigment granules, free in the tissues.
Blows on the skin of a body which has been dead for not more than two hours may produce true ecchymosis with extravasation of blood, such as can be distinguished with great difficulty or not at all from those formed during life.
In ecchymosis the blood capillaries being ruptured, the blood permeates the bruised tissues surrounding the ruptured vessels and thus gives the characteristic color of venous blood.
An ecchymosis becomes visible at varying times after the injury according to the depth of the ecchymosis and the thinness of the skin, for the ecchymosis is mostly beneath, not in the skin.
The course along which the ecchymosis travels is indicated externally by a yellowish stain, soon disappearing, so that soon no sign persists at the site of injury, but only below where the blood is arrested.
In the latter case, if life had continued the ecchymosis might have shown itself at some spot on the surface in a few days, but these falls from a height are fatal as a rule.
The size of the ecchymosis also varies with the looseness of the tissues into which it is infiltrated.
The color of the ecchymosis would be sufficient to settle all such doubts, as the changes of color would have fully developed or the color even disappeared in part in fourteen days’ time.
There was no mucus in the trachea and no ecchymosis in the lungs.
An ecchymosismay be infiltrative or it may mostly occupy a cavity usually formed by a traumatic separation of the tissues; this is especially the case in the scalp and extremities when the injury is severe.
The same absence of ecchymosis has been noticed in cases where the liver, stomach, intestines, bladder, etc.
Casper thought that it required some time before death for an ecchymosis to develop, and that if the person injured by a contusion died soon after the injury, an ecchymosis would not appear after death.
Intracranial hemorrhage, laceration with ecchymosis of the brain, on the same or opposite side to the injury, and concussion of the brain may result.
Necroscopy: Large dark ecchymosis in subcutaneous tissue of front of neck and upper part of chest.
Ordinarily, this ecchymosis of the horny sole is due to injury of the sensitive sole immediately beneath it.
In this case the ecchymosis of the horny sole may be explained by the fact that the escaped blood tends to gravitate to that position.
I mean the gentleman with an ecchymosis under his left eye.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ecchymosis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bruise; hemorrhage; mouse
