ECCHYMOSIS, from ἔχεω to pour out, or from ἔξ out of, and χύμα juice. It is an effusion of humours from their respective vessels, under the integuments; or, as Paulus Ægineta says, "When the flesh is bruised by the violent collision of any object, and its small veins broken, the blood is gradually discharged from them." This blood, when collected under the skin, is called ecchymosis, the skin in the mean time remaining entire; sometimes a tumor is formed by it, which is soft and livid, and generally without pain. If the quantity of blood is not considerable, it is usually resorbed; if much, it suppurates; it rarely happens that
Ecclaireisse that any further inconvenience follows; though, in case of a very bad habit of body, a mortification may be the result, and in such a case regard must be had thereto.