Bruise (Definition). Bruises, or ecchymoses, are a discoloration and tenderness of the skin or mucous membranes due to the leakage of blood from an injured blood vessel into the tissues. Pupura refers to bruising as the result of a disease condition.
Updated July 26, 2016. People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are often described as having mood lability. Mood liability is an emotional response that is irregular or out of proportion to the situation at hand. It is associated with severe mood swings, intense reactions and dramatic changes in opinions and feelings. Mood lability is often evidenced through destructive or harmful behaviors.
adjective. (Of a person or their manner) childishly sulky or bad-tempered: he was moody and petulant a petulant shake of the head. More example sentences. 1  By midnight, he was pouting like a petulant kid being kept after school. 2  I cycled off, leaving him to glower after me like a petulant teenager.ate 16th century (in the sense 'immodest'): from French petulant, pÃ©tulant From latin- 'petulant' (impudent related to 'petere aim, at'). Seek the current (sense mid 18th) century is influenced by. pettish