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purpura

noun/ˈpɜːpjʊərə/

C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Discolouration of the skin caused by bleeding into it, which does not blanch on pressure.

Non-blanching purpura over the buttocks and legs raised the suspicion of Henoch-Schönlein disease.

Topic: Dermatology in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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