SUGGILLATION
\sˌʌɡɪlˈe͡ɪʃən], \sˌʌɡɪlˈeɪʃən], \s_ˌʌ_ɡ_ɪ_l_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
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By Oddity Software
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By most autbors used synonymously with ecchymosis and ecchymoma. It is, also, applied to the spots, or ecchymoses which occurin consequenceof intrinsic causes,-in disease and in incipient putrefaction. It is common in dead bodies; Livor seu macula emortualis. To this last case it is, indeed, restricted by some medico-legal writers; and an interesting question sometimes arises :-Whether the appearance have been induced before death or afterwards? Whether it be a case of ecchymosis or of suggillation? In the former, the extravasated blood will usually be coagulated; not so in the latter. It is often, however, difficult to form a correct judgment without reference to the history of the case.
By Robley Dunglison
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[Latin] An ecchymosis or spot like that produced by an ecchymosis.
By Alexander Duane
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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[L.] (Med.) A black-and-blue mark, bruise.
By Henry Percy Smith
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