ecchymose
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛ.kɪˌməʊz/
Verb
ecchymose (third-person singular simple present ecchymoses, present participle ecchymosing, simple past and past participle ecchymosed)
- (archaic, medicine) To bruise from the production of an ecchymosis.
References
- “ecchymose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἐκχύμωσις (ekkhúmōsis, “bruise”), from ἐκχέω (ekkhéō, “to flow out”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.ki.moz/
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Noun
ecchymose f (plural ecchymoses)
- bruise (mark on body), ecchymosis
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Les formes du pied disparaissaient dans une telle bouffissure, que la peau tout entière semblait près de se rompre, et elle était couverte d'ecchymoses occasionnées par la fameuse machine.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- “ecchymose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012