PURPURA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purpura mean? 

• PURPURA (noun)
  The noun PURPURA has 1 sense:

1. any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding

  Familiarity information: PURPURA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURPURA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several blood diseases causing subcutaneous bleeding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

peliosis; purpura

Hypernyms ("purpura" is a kind of...):

blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "purpura"):

nonthrombocytopenic purpura (purpura resulting from a defect in the capillaries caused by bacteria or drugs)

idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura; purpura hemorrhagica; thrombocytopenic purpura; Werlhof's disease (purpura associated with a reduction in circulating blood platelets which can result from a variety of factors)

 Context examples 

Also called immune thrombocytopenic purpura and ITP.

(Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, NCI Dictionary)

A drug used to treat patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) who do not get better with other forms of treatment.

(AMG 531, NCI Dictionary)

It is known also as the lung purpura glomerulonephritis complex.

(Goodpasture Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A drug used to treat chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (a condition in which platelets are destroyed by the immune system).

(Eltrombopag olamine, NCI Dictionary)

Causes include thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, disseminated intravascular coagulation, bone marrow disorders, and antiphospholipid antibody syndrome.

(Excessive Blood Clotting, NCI Thesaurus)

Inflammation of the blood vessel wall characterized by palpable purpura.

(Cutaneous Vasculitis, NCI Thesaurus)

The active ingredient in a drug used to treat chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (a condition in which platelets are destroyed by the immune system).

(Eltrombopag, NCI Dictionary)

Also called idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and ITP.

(Immune thrombocytopenic purpura, NCI Dictionary)

Also called idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura and immune thrombocytopenic purpura.

(ITP, NCI Dictionary)

A form of nonthrombocytopenic purpura due to a hypersensitivity vasculitis associated with a variety of clinical symptoms including urticaria and erythema, arthropathy and arthritis, gastrointestinal symptoms, and renal involvement.

(Henoch-Schonlein Purpura, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)