Purpura lapillus, or of some species of Natica, which bear a fanciful resemblance to grains of barley.
In purpura haemorrhagica the number is enormously diminished.
The term purpura urticans has been given to this sub-variety, which may or may not be accompanied by itching.
It is evident, therefore, that in the sense often employed the term purpura is used to describe a symptom or symptoms common to a variety of non-related maladies.
The affection bearing the closest resemblance to spontaneous purpura is scurvy; indeed, its supposed relationship to this disease has givenpurpura one of its synonyms, land scurvy.
Purpura rheumatica never seems to result in endo- or pericarditis.
Some persons, indeed, seem to possess a {191} predisposition to the disease, and some authors claim for purpura rheumatica a distinct annual type.
It is probable that the men were suffering from starvation, purpura and dysentery.
Vannutelli gives a description of an epidemic of some 200 cases of infectious purpura with manifestations of hemorrhagic scurvy.
It is thought that the last species is recognized in the Purpura lapillus (Fig.
The Purpura is an oval shell, thick pointed, with short conical spiral, as in Purpura lapillus (Fig.
The Purpura of the ancients was not, as is generally thought, a vermilion red, but rather a very deep violet, which at a later period came to have various shades of red.
The Buccinums resemble the Purpura in many respects.
Cyprina islandica and Purpura lapillus not only exist as living molluscs in the British seas, but they occur also as crag-shells, side by side with the dead races that have no place in the present fauna.
Among the univalves I can distinguish Dentalium entale, Purpura lapillus, Turritella terebra, and Littorina littorea, all existing shells, but all common also to at least the later deposits of the Crag.
Purpura rheumatica (also called peliosis rheumatica) is usually preceded by symptoms of malaise, rheumatic pains and sometimes swelling about the joints; these phenomena abate and frequently disappear upon the outbreak of the eruption.
The lesion of purpuraconsists essentially of a hemorrhage into the cutaneous tissues.
Selenka found in the case of Purpura lapillus that no polar body was formed in the eggs which did not develop, but in the case of Neritina, Buetschli has found that this does not hold good.
The purpura of the Mediterranean is famous for the purple dye obtained from its body; but our species yields such a dye also in small quantity.
It fastens them down to the surface of the rock by little stalks, so that they look like tiny egg-cups with eggs inside them; therefore when these eggs hatch, several little purpura come out of each cup.
Hold the purpura over this sheet of white paper, and give the animal a little poke with the head of a pin.
The Maori name is Kakara or Kaeo, both of which names are also given to the Purpura haustrum (Plate II.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purpura" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
