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Petechia

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Petechia 

a tiny hemorrhage in the skin or mucous membranes that results from injury to capillary walls or from thrombocytopenia of varied origin. Petechia arises in hemorrhagic diathesis, leukosis, and certain infectious diseases, including epidemic typhus, scarlet fever, and sepses.
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Gross lesions included scattered petechia in epicardial fat within the coronary groove (Figure, panel A), a few petechia in mucosa of the ventriculi (gizzards), slight increase in pericardial fluid, and swollen kidneys.
Phylogenetics and pathogenesis of early avian influenza viruses ... by Aiki-Raji, Comfort O.; Aguilar, Patricia V.; Kwon, Yong-Kuk; Goetz, Sue; Suarez, David L.; Jethra, A / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The Yellow Warbler Dendrica petechia is a summer visitor, arriving in North America when the apple trees are coming into blossom.
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Focal SAH (case 8) and subepicardial petechia (cases 4, 8 and 9) were evaluated as secondary to asphyxia and as non-death-related secondary non-specific lesions and the cause of death reported as indeterminate.
Soccer related sudden deaths in Turkey by Ozdemir, Caglar; Saka, Tolga; Asil, Hasim; Uzun, Ibrahim; Oner, Mutlu / Journal of Sports Science and Medicine
 
 
 
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