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(medicine) Purple (of spots which appear on the skin); pertaining to or affected with purpura.
(chemistry, not comparable) Purple in colour; derived from or forming a substance which is purple; derived from or forming purpuric acid.
From the Latin purpura (the colour purple), from Greek. The medical sense is from the English purpura (the appearance of purple discolorations on the skin).
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