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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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8[degrees]C), arthralgia in the hands and ankles, and a petechial maculopapular rash on the thorax and extremities.
Murine typhus in child, Yucatan, Mexico by Zavala-Castro, Jorge E.; Zavala-Velazquez, Jorge E.; Uicab, Justo Eduardo Sulu / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Physical signs such as muscle wasting, loss of adipose tissue, jaundice, anemia, dehydration, cyanosis, spider nevi, excessive bruising, petechial hemorrhages, hyper-pigmentation, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, peripheral edema, and ascites were evaluated.
Clinical evaluation of a herbal formulation in liver disorders by Ganesh, S.; Patki, Pralhad S.; Mitra, S.K. / Australian Journal of Medical Herbalism
The child had petechial hemorrhaging in the eyes which indicates deprivation of air.
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