| variola haemorrhagica | A severe and frequently fatal form of smallpox accompanied by extravasation of blood into the skin in the early stage, or into the pustules at a later stage, accompanied often by nosebleed and haemorrhage from other orifices of the body. Synonym: fulminating smallpox, variola haemorrhagica. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| metropathia haemorrhagica | Abnormal, excessive, often continuous uterine bleeding due to persistence and exaggeration of the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle; the endometrium is the seat of glandular hyperplasia with cyst formation. See: Swiss cheese endometrium Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000) |
| scarlatina haemorrhagica | A form of scarlatina in which blood extravasates into the skin and mucous membranes, giving to the eruption a dusky hue; frequent bleeding from the nose and into the intestine also occurs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| purpura haemorrhagica | idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura |
| osteopathia haemorrhagica infantum | infantile scurvy |
| encephalitis haemorrhagica | Encephalitis of apoplectoid character due to blood extravasation. Synonym: encephalitis haemorrhagica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| urticaria haemorrhagica | Urticaria bullosa in which the serous exudate contains blood. (05 Mar 2000) |
| albuminuric retinitis | See: hypertensive retinopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| apoplectic retinitis | An obsolete term for the appearance of the retina after occlusion of the central retinal vein. (05 Mar 2000) |
| azotemic retinitis | An obsolete term for hypertensive retinopathy. See: hypertensive retinopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| recurrent central retinitis | An obsolete term for central serous retinopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| central angiospastic retinitis | An obsolete term for central serous choroidopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| retinitis | <ophthalmology> Inflammation of the retina. (05 May 1997) |
| retinitis pigmentosa | <ophthalmology> Disease caused by overactivity of the pigmented retinal epithelial cells, leading to damage and occlusion of photoreceptors and blindness. (18 Nov 1997) |
| retinitis proliferans | <ophthalmology, pathology> A disease of the small blood vessels of the retina of the eye. See: diabetic retinopathy. Origin: Gr. Pathos = disease (09 Oct 1997) |