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1. (n.) cyanosis
blueness or lividness of the skin, caused by a deficiency of oxygen or defective hemoglobin in the blood.
Etymology: (1825–35; < Gk kyán(os) (see cyano -1) + -osis)
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1. (noun) cyanosis
a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes; a sign that oxygen in the blood is dangerously diminished (as in carbon monoxide poisoning)
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1. (noun) cyanosis
a condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy
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1. cyanosis
A bluish or purplish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes due to an increase in the amount of deoxygenated hemoglobin in the blood or a structural defect in the hemoglobin molecule.
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