Definitions for cyanosis

cyanosis cy·a·no·sis

Spelling: [sahy-uh-noh-sis]
IPA: /ˌsaɪ əˈnoʊ sɪs/

Cyanosis is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 221 anagrams from letters in cyanosis (acinossy).

Definitions for cyanosis

noun

  1. blueness or lividness of the skin, as from imperfectly oxygenated blood.

Origin of cyanosis

1825-35; New Latin Greek kyánōsis dark-blue color. See cyan-1, -osis

Examples for cyanosis

That's not a lay term either, but when the patient is in oxygen need or oxygen want, cyanosis would be apparent.

cyanosis of the extremities (bluish tinge, due to excessive venous circulation).

Occasionally a degree of cyanosis develops that is quite startling for the untrained observer.

Should marked symptoms of exhaustion or of cyanosis arise, the bathing should be at once stopped.

cyanosis of the extremities seemed to have been present only at first.

Like pneumonia, anesthesia may kill the fetus if kept up for a long time, or if marked by cyanosis.

Still, we have patients in the state, as far as cyanosis and agonal type respiration, who are resuscitatable.

In other cases of phthisis and of cyanosis the nails and finger-ends become clubbed like acorns.

With the re-establishment of respiration the cyanosis rapidly fades, to be succeeded in some cases by pallor and perspiration.

The nausea and abdominal pain are more marked, while the dyspnoea, cyanosis, and shrunken condition of the skin are less marked.

Word Value for cyanosis
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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