Petechial

Origin

From the New Latin petechialis, from petechia, from the Italian petecchia.

Full definition of petechial

Adjective

1. (medicine) characterised by, pertaining to, or resembling petechiae (small, nonraised haemorrhages on the skin)
• 1750, John Huxham, An Essay on Fevers:Chap. VIII. Of putrid, malignant, petechial Fevers.
• 2001, M. W. Service (editor), Encyclopedia of Arthropod-transmitted Infections:Petechial haemorrhages may appear in the conjunctivae and ecchymotic haemorrhages on the ventral surface of the tongue.