Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Afflicted with cyanosis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In pathology, exhibiting cyanosis; of a bluish color from defect of circulation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient aëration of the blood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective pathology
Afflicted withcyanosis .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When the PDA closes, some babies with tricuspid atresia get quite blue/cyanosed.
Tricuspid Atresia 2010
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Sparks lay sprawled on the floor, his face cyanosed and contorted.
The Cruise of a Deathtime Babson, Marian 1983
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The bald man was staring at him with cyanosed eyes, his hands clenching and unclenching on the splintered and gouged surface of his table.
The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982
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They wouldn't have laughed like that if they'd come in here and found me on the bathroom floor with a blue cyanosed face.
The Mandarin Cypher Hall, Adam 1975
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For several seconds the silence may be complete, while the child steadily becomes more and more cyanosed, or the body may be shaken by incomplete expiratory movements and strangled cries which are suppressed because the chest is already in a position of almost complete expiration.
The Nervous Child Hector Charles Cameron
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It was blue and cyanosed still, and his lips had a violet tinge.
The Treasure-Train 1908
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Without warning, the child seems to choke, has great difficulty in breathing, with inspiratory stridor and indrawing of the epigastrium; he rapidly becomes cyanosed, and in the majority of cases dies in a few minutes -- _thymus death_.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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In some cases there are localised jerkings, in others generalised convulsive attacks during which the patient becomes deeply cyanosed.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The face is cyanosed, and the distension of the veins of the eyelids furnishes an index of the severity of the intra-cranial venous stasis
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The patient may rapidly become cyanosed, the inspirations assume a noisy, stridulous character, and great distress and imminent suffocation supervene.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
hernesheir commented on the word cyanosed
Normally, this term has nothing to do with bluenose, unless the latter becomes cyanotic due to acrocyanosis.
November 9, 2012