Usually means: Bleeding into skin, purple spots.
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  1. purpura: Merriam-Webster
  2. purpura: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. purpura: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. purpura: Collins English Dictionary
  5. purpura: Vocabulary.com
  6. Purpura, purpura: Wordnik
  7. purpura: Wiktionary
  8. purpura: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. purpura: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. purpura: Dictionary.com
  11. purpura: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Purpura (disambiguation), Purpura: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Purpura: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. purpura: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. purpura: Rhymezone
  16. Purpura: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. purpura: FreeDictionary.org
  18. purpura: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. purpura: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Purpura: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purpura: Encyclopedia

Medicine (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. purpura: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Purpura: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Purpura: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Purpura: GLOSSARY OF ALLERGY TERMS
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  10. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  11. Purpura: Scleroderma
  12. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  13. Purpura: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  14. Purpura: GLOSSARY of BLOOD RELATED TERMS
  15. purpura: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  16. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  17. purpura: Medical dictionary
  18. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  19. Purpura: Drug Medical Dictionary
  20. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purpura: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Purpura: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Purpura)

noun:  (pathology) The appearance of red or purple discolorations on the skin that do not blanch when pressure is applied, caused by subdermal bleeding.
noun:  A surname.

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