Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Petechia

Petechia , noun, plural

[New Latin, from Late Latin peteccia; compare French pétéchie, Italian petecchia, Sp. petequia, Greek pitta`kion a label, plaster.]

(Medicine) Small crimson, purple, or livid spots, like flea-bites, due to extravasation of blood, which appear on the skin in malignant fevers, etc.

Also: Petechiae