ecchymosis

Platelet disorders can also cause ecchymoses, and more characteristically tiny red dots on the legs called petechiae.

It is chiefly in cases of a malignant type and rapid and fatal course that ecchymoses have been observed.

In his report, dated June 23rd, 1908, Dr. Lefevre stated: "I found on the wrists and the ankles parallel lineal ecchymoses."

In such constitutions, ecchymosis succeeds with unusual readiness, to slight contusions.

Is this disease scorbutic?—I never observed ecchymoses, nor in more than a single instance any the minutest red specks upon the cutis, which might be thought to resemble petechiæ.