cyanosis

IPA: sˈaɪʌnˈoʊsʌs

(pathology) A blue discolouration of the skin due to the circulation of blood low in oxygen.

Examples of "cyanosis" in Sentences

The infant had cyanosis, required urgent positive pressure pulmonary care, and was hospitalized for twenty – eight days.
Leasure noted Wesley was past the point of cyanosis, which is when the body turns blue because of a lack of oxygen in the blood.
With too much deoxygenated blood in the arteries, the skin turns from pink to blue (cyanosis comes from the Greek kyanos, meaning dark blue).
The whoops bring with them paroxysms and cyanosis, which are the clinical terms for coughing fits so severe they cause the skin to turn blue.
In other cases, TAPVR is diagnosed in the first few months of life after a child demonstrates milder symptoms such as a heart murmur or cyanosis (blue tint to skin).
Today a paramedic, Allan Maciak, whose first aid training actually allows him to tell the difference between bruising and cyanosis, testified that police told him Robert Dziekanski had been Tasered once.
Maciak said when he arrived to take over from firefighters, Dziekanski had a condition known as cyanosis, a serious circulation problem that turns the skin blue and progresses from the extremities into the face and body.
(For the medically inclined, this bluish coloring is called cyanosis and it occurs when a child becomes hypoxic because of the oxygen depletion that comes with pneumonia and the inability to breathe.) Salmon’s criticism characterized the idea as somewhere between “ineffectual” and “downright offensive”.