Usually means: Discoloration due to bleeding underneath.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. purpuric: Merriam-Webster
  2. purpuric: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. purpuric: Collins English Dictionary
  4. purpuric: Wordnik
  5. purpuric: Wiktionary
  6. purpuric: Dictionary.com
  7. Purpuric: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Purpuric: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. purpuric: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Purpuric: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. purpuric: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. purpuric: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Purpuric: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purpuric: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. purpuric: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. purpuric: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (purpuric)

adjective:  (medicine) Pertaining to or affected with purpura (skin discoloration from blood inside it).
adjective:  (medicine, archaic) Purple or purplish (of spots which appear on the skin; regardless of their cause); Synonym of purpureal.
adjective:  (chemistry, not comparable) purple in colour; derived from or forming a substance which is purple; especially:
adjective:  Derived from or forming purpuric acid.

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