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Purplish or brownish red discoloration, easily visible through the epidermis, caused by hemorrhage into the tissues.

Minute hemorrhagic spots, of pinpoint to pinhead size, in the skin.

In med., purple or dark-red spots which appear on the skin in fevers of a malignant type.

Small spots, similar in shape and colour to flea-bites, which occur spontaneously upon the skin, in the course of severe fevers, &c. They are, under such circumstances, signs of great prostration.