cyanosis
IPA: sˈaɪʌnˈoʊsʌs
noun
- (pathology) A blue discolouration of the skin due to the circulation of blood low in oxygen.
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Examples of "cyanosis" in Sentences
- This will cause signs of cyanosis.
- It causes cyanosis even at low blood levels.
- Infants develop cyanosis and/or breathlessness early.
- Symptoms include cyanosis, dyspnoea and apnoeic spells.
- Delayed pulmonary edema, cyanosis or bronchopneumonia may develop.
- She was born a month premature, and suffered from severe cyanosis.
- Argyria is rare, and mild forms are sometimes mistaken for cyanosis.
- Symptoms of exposure include dizziness, headaches, syncope, and cyanosis.
- Severe hypoxia induces a blue discolouration of the skin, called cyanosis.
- There was also evidence of cyanosis, an indication that death was very quick.
- 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”.