Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cyanosis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.
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- noun medicine A
disease in which the surface of thebody turnsblue , usually arising from amalformation of theheart , which causes an imperfectarterialization of theblood .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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One contributing factor to women gaining the right to vote in America was a medical condition called testicular cyanopathy.
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