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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. F.

pétéchial

, LL.

petecchialis

(Med.)

Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechiæ; spotted.

Petechial fever

a malignant fever, accompanied with livid spots on the skin.

Adj.

Spotted. A petechial fever is a malignant fever accompanied with purple spots on the skin.

See also: pétéchial

petechial ‎(comparative more petechial, superlative most petechial)

(medicine) Characterised by, pertaining to, or resembling petechiae (small, nonraised haemorrhages on the skin).
- 1750, John Huxham, chapter 8, in An Essay on Fevers:
  Of putrid, malignant, petechial Fevers.
- 2001, M. W. Service, editor, Encyclopedia of Arthropod-transmitted Infections:
  Petechial haemorrhages may appear in the conjunctivae and ecchymotic haemorrhages on the ventral surface of the tongue.