What's the difference between purpura and purpuric?
Purpura
Definition:
(n.) A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples.
(n.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.
Example Sentences:
(1) Purpura fulminans is the cutaneous manifestation of acute activation of the clotting mechanism resulting in massive hemorrhage due to an intravascular consumption coagulopathy.
(2) A close correlation between purpuric reaction and drugs was observed in seven cases of chronic pigmented purpura.
(3) The criteria selected by a classification tree method were similar: palpable purpura, age less than or equal to 20 years at disease onset, biopsy showing granulocytes around arterioles or venules, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
(4) The association of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and pregnancy is of special therapeutic significance because it increases the risk to mother and infant during labor.
(5) Two cases with brain purpura following Gram-negative septicaemia were examined morphologically and immunohistochemically.
(6) Chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is an autoimmune disorder in which the abnormality in cellular immunity has remained only vaguely defined.
(7) Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is more frequently seen in young females than in any other age or sex group.
(8) An eight-day-old girl suffered from purpura fulminans at her four extremities, skull, bladder, ovary and vagina.
(9) Sera from 24 children with Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) and 25 controls were tested for rheumatoid factor (RF) of various isotypes.
(10) The discoveries that in Graves' disease and myasthenia gravis there are IgG antibodies directed against receptors sites are examples of such developments, while "ikiopathic" thrombocytopenic purpura is now accepted as immunological owing to its behaviour during pregnancy.
(11) We attempted to search for any specific change in the immune system during the onset of childhood acute immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) in order to clarify the pathophysiology of acute ITP by examining the lymphocyte subset, lymphocyte blastogenic response, serum complements, and immunoglobulins in 18 patients with childhood acute ITP and 18 controls (control values after normalization).
(12) The hematoma resulted from intraparenchymal bleeding due to Henoch-Schönlein purpura.
(13) Verotoxin-producing E. coli (most frequently E. coli O157) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic uremic syndrome and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
(14) The action of intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) in autoimmune diseases, especially in idiopathic thrombocytic purpura seems to be due to Fc-receptor blockade and immunomodifying qualities.
(15) Newborn infants with congenital homozygous protein C deficiency develop catastrophic thrombosis (purpura fulminans) and will not survive beyond the neonatal period without protein C replacement.
(16) The onset of purpura in this patient was during the incubation of rubella before the initiation of immune response, suggesting that in some patients the mechanism of platelet damage in ITP associated with rubella is through a direct effect of the virus, rather than by circulating antibodies.
(17) At autopsy there were scattered purpura on the skin, and the muscles were atrophic and yellowish-grey in color.
(18) 18 patients with proven autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura (ATP) (group A) were screened for human lymphocyte antigens (HLA) and compared with 13 patients with secondary thrombocytopenic purpura (group B).
(19) Five patients with post-transfusion purpura (four due to Zw(a), one presumably due to HLA antibodies) were treated with intravenous immunoglobulin (IgG) at doses of 0.4 g per kg body weight.
(20) We have investigated the methods for the maintenance of a pregnancy in a patient with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), said condition, since 1984, having been controlled by a plasma infusion every 3 to 4 weeks.
Purpuric
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to purpura.
(a.) Pertaining to or designating, a nitrogenous acid contained in uric acid. It is not known in the pure state, but forms well-known purple-red compounds (as murexide), whence its name.
Example Sentences:
(1) A close correlation between purpuric reaction and drugs was observed in seven cases of chronic pigmented purpura.
(2) A palpable, purpuric, nonpruritic eruption occurred in a 64-year-old man nine days after he received intravenous streptokinase therapy, which was successful in treating acute myocardial infarction.
(3) Henoch-Schönlein Syndrome (HSS) is characterized by the presence of purpuric skin lesions, colicky abdominal pain, renal manifestations, and arthritis.
(4) The majority of these reactions, such as urticarial, purpuric, maculo-papular, and pustular exanthemas as well as photallergic reactions, generally do not endanger the life of the patient.
(5) The results of this investigation indicate that there are at least three pathogenetically differing groups among the clinical purpuric conditions.
(6) An 80-year-old woman with essential cryoglobulinemia developed recurrent, widespread, purpuric lesions with superficial skin ulcers and cold urticaria.
(7) Biopsy of uninvolved, rather than of purpuric, skin for direct immunofluorescence studies may be more helpful in confirming the diagnosis of Henoch-Schönlein purpura because tissue morphology is usually of better quality.
(8) A case study and literature review are presented to encourage the inclusion of Schamberg's purpura in the differential diagnosis of purpuric eruptions in childhood.
(9) The oral lesions had a characteristic appearance with a granular purpuric surface.
(10) Thirty-five patients (greater than or equal to 13 years of age) with meningococcal infection, circulatory shock, and generalized purpuric lesions of abrupt onset were recorded in eight intensive care units from 1977 to 1989.
(11) Two years later he developed abdominal pain, rectal bleeding, gross hematuria and a classic purpuric rash of Henoch-Schönlein syndrome (HSS).
(12) Formation of purpuric membranes depends on the light spectral composition applied for culture illumination.
(13) Diagnosis and treatment were often delayed because doctors did not realise the importance of the purpuric rash.
(14) Patch test reactions in a patient with purpuric contact dermatitis to 5% benzoyl peroxide are described.
(15) Brazilian purpuric fever (BPF) is a life-threatening pediatric infection that is preceded by conjunctivitis and caused by a specific strain of Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius (BPF clone).
(16) At a decrease of cultivation temperature even under the blue light the formation of purpuric membranes is inhibited.
(17) The pigmented purpuric dermatoses are a group of disorders in which there is chronic capillaritis, with pigmented purpuric lesions predominantly on the lower limbs.
(18) Human hypersensitivity angiitis is an immune complex disease in which patients present with palpable purpuric lesions of the skin and may often have multiple organ involvement.
(19) Case 2: A 37-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital because of purpuric eruptions over the legs for three years.
(20) Brazilian purpuric fever is a rapidly fatal childhood disease associated with a clonal strain of Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius.