ecchymose
English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editecchymose (third-person singular simple present ecchymoses, present participle ecchymosing, simple past and past participle ecchymosed)
- (medicine) To discolour by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ecchymose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek ἐκχύμωσις (ekkhúmōsis, “bruise”), from ἐκχέω (ekkhéō, “to flow out”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editecchymose f (plural ecchymoses)
- bruise (mark on body), ecchymosis
Further reading
edit- “ecchymose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.