ecchymosis

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ec=chy=mo=sis

CIDE DICTIONARY

ecchymosis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. , fr. to extravasate; 'ek out of + to pour.].

 A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

ecchymosis

Excretion

N excretion, discharge, emanation, exhalation, exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation, ecchymosis, evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement, shit, stools, crap, bloody flux, cacation, coeliac-flux, coeliac- passion, dysentery, perspiration, sweat, subation, exudation, diaphoresis, sewage, eccrinology, saliva, spittle, rheum, ptyalism, salivation, catarrh, diarrhoea, ejecta, egesta, sputa, excreta, lava, exuviae, hemorrhage, bleeding, outpouring.