Entry: cyanosis (n.)
In context: "Her lips and cheek-points are the vague robin's-egg of cyanosis."
Definition: 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.
Other: Good or bad?
1851 S. Judd Margaret (1871) ii. ii. 193 His love for me produces a cyanosis.
SNOOT score: 1
Page: 512
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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