‖ cyanosis Path.
(saɪəˈnəʊsɪs)
[a. Gr. κυάνωσις dark-blue colour, f. κύανος a dark-blue mineral; see -osis.]
Blueness or lividness of the skin owing to the circulation of imperfectly oxygenated blood (esp. as caused by congenital malformation of the heart); blue disease, blue jaundice.
| 1834 Good Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 669 note, Obstruction..may likewise bring on Cyania, or as it is more frequently named Cyanosis. 1851 S. Judd Margaret ii. ii. (1871) 193 His love for me produces a cyanosis. 1876 tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 336 Constant cyanosis of the mucous membranes. |