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Minute hemorrhagic spots, of pinpoint to pinhead size, in the skin, which are not blanched by pressure. [Mod. L. form of It. petecchie]

- calcaneal p. traumatic hemorrhage into the stratum corneum of the heel that may persist for several weeks as centrally confluent black dots. SYN: black heel.

- Tardieu p. SYN: Tardieu ecchymoses, under ecchymosis.

pl. n.

small round flat dark-red spots caused by bleeding into the skin or beneath the mucous membrane. Petechiae occur, for example, in the purpura.