purpura hemorrhagica

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   purpura associated with a reduction in circulating blood platelets which can result from a variety of factors

   Synonymsthrombocytopenic purpuraidiopathic thrombocytopenic purpuraWerlhof's disease

   Broaderpurpuraautoimmune disease

Questions about purpura hemorrhagica

What does purpura hemorrhagica mean?

purpura hemorrhagica means "purpura associated with a reduction in circulating blood platelets which can result from a variety of factors".

What is another word for purpura hemorrhagica?

Close synonyms include thrombocytopenic purpura, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, Werlhof's disease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is purpura hemorrhagica a common word?

purpura hemorrhagica is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.