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Webster 1913 Edition
Purpuric
Pur-pu′ric
,Adj.
[Cf. F.
purpurique
.] 1.
(Med.)
Of or pertaining to purpura.
Dunglison.
2.
(Chem.)
Pertaining to or designating, a nitrogenous acid contained in uric acid. It is not known in the pure state, but forms well-known purple-red compounds (as murexide), whence its name.
☞ Purpuric acid was formerly used to designate murexan. See
Murexan
. Webster 1828 Edition
Purpuric
PUR'PURIC
,Adj.
Definition 2024
purpuric
purpuric
English
Adjective
purpuric (comparative more purpuric, superlative most purpuric)
- (medicine) purple (of spots which appear on the skin); pertaining to or affected with purpura
- 2003, Christine Léauté-Labrèze and Alain Taïeb, Diagnosis and management of Stevens Johnson syndrome, in Recent Advances in Pediatrics, Volume 20 (edited by Tim J David), Royal Society of Medicine Press, page 140:
- After 1–14 days, skin eruption occurs abruptly, consisting of symmetrical purpuric macules which progress to blisters and areas of epidermal necrosis...
- 2003, Christine Léauté-Labrèze and Alain Taïeb, Diagnosis and management of Stevens Johnson syndrome, in Recent Advances in Pediatrics, Volume 20 (edited by Tim J David), Royal Society of Medicine Press, page 140:
- (chemistry, not comparable) purple in colour; derived from or forming a substance which is purple; derived from or forming purpuric acid