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Definition: PETECHIAE |
PETECHIAENoun plural1. Small crimson, purple, or livid spots, like flea-bites, due to extravasation of blood, which appear on the skin in malignant fevers, etc. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Pinpoint, unraised, round red spots under the skin caused by bleeding. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PETECHIAE |
| English words defined with "PETECHIAE": Petechial ♦ Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PETECHIAE": haemorrhagic bovine septicaemia, haemorrhagic septicaemia, haemorrhagic septicaemia of cattle ♦ Pasteurella multocida infection, pasteurellosis of cattle ♦ septicaemic pasteurellosis. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | On colonoscopy, petechiae, aphthous ulcers and erythema may be observed. (references) | |
The most common of these manifestations are skin hemorrhages such as petechiae, purpura, or ecchymoses, but may also include epistaxis, bleeding gums, hematemesis, and melena. (references) | ||
Signs that make a diagnosis of HPS unlikely include rashes, conjunctival or other hemorrhages, throat or conjunctival erythema, petechiae, and peripheral or periorbital edema. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "PETECHIAE" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PETECHIAE" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
petechiae | 215 |
petechiae picture | 19 |
cause petechiae | 10 |
petechiae photo | 3 |
image petechiae | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PETECHIAE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | petecchiae. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | petechieën. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | pétéchie (f). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Petechien. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | petecchia (petechia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | etechiaepay petéquias. (various references) petequia por ataque epiléptico (petechiae during epileptic attack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "PETECHIAE" (pronounced 'Pe*tech"i*[ae]'): A, Abacinate, Abada, Abaisance, Abalienate, Abalone, Abandonee, Abanga, Abase, Abasia, Abatable, Abature, Abba, Abbreviature, Abderite, Abdicable, Abdicative, Abditive, Abdominalia, Abduce, Abearance, Abegge, Abele, Aberrate, Aberuncate, Abeyance, Abhominable, Abhorrence, Abhorrible, Abidance, Abietene, Abietite, Abirritate, Abirritative, Abjudge, Abjudicate, Abjugate, Abjunctive, Ablactate, Ablaqueate, Ablaze, Abligate, Ablude, Abnegate, Abnegative, Abnodate, Abodance, Abolishable, Abolitionize, Aboma. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-h-i-p-t" | |
-1 letter: petechia. | |
-2 letters: aphetic, cheapie, hepatic. | |
-3 letters: apiece, haptic, hepcat, phatic, techie, thecae. | |
-4 letters: aitch, chape, chapt, cheap, cheat, cheep, epact, etape, ethic, patch, peace, peach, piece, pieta, pitch, tache, teach, tepee, theca. | |
-5 letters: ache, cape, caph, cate, cepe, cete, chap, chat, chia, chip, chit, cite, each, eath, eche, epee, epha, epic, etch, etic, haet, hate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-h-i-p-t" | |
+4 letters: hepatectomies, hyperreactive, metencephalic, preanesthetic, telencephalic. | |
+5 letters: cephalometries, chemotherapies, encephalitides, encephalitogen, hepatectomized, hyperaesthetic, hyperexcitable, preanesthetics, steeplechasing. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 45 54 45 43 48 49 41 45 |
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