Cyanosis in a sentence as a noun

Without even having to touch the child, you can see signs of pallor, cyanosis, or mottling. If any of these is present, this is an abnormal circulation to the skin.

He was noted to be ill-appearing with dry mucous membranes, mild cyanosis of the lips and nail beds, and jaundiced skin. His abdomen was diffusely tender to palpation without rebound or guarding.

> "blue all over" = 0 > "blue at the extremities, body pink" = 1 > "no cyanosis" = 2 I wonder if they have updated guidance and training for scoring non-white babies. Brown and black babies probably don't turn blue in the same way white babies turn blue.

It causes cyanosis even at low blood levels. >It is a rare blood condition that occurs when a sulfur atom is incorporated into the hemoglobin molecule.

It's common knowledge in the medical community that the lung damage shows itself as clubbing and cyanosis of the fintertips. Getting my lungs healthier and improving my baseline health has caused me to have significant improvement in my fingernails.

Unconsciousness and convulsions would follow several seconds later, and a blue discoloration of the skin called cyanosis would become evident. At this point the victim would be floating in a blue, bloated, unresponsive stupor, but their brain would remain undamaged and their heart would continue to beat.

In severe poisoning, there are tremors, prostration, cyanosis, dypnoea, convulsion, progression to collapse and coma. Even death may occur from paralysis of respiratory muscles and/or central respiratory failure with a LD50 in adults of around 30-60 mg of nicotine.

Cyanosis definitions

noun

a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes; a sign that oxygen in the blood is dangerously diminished (as in carbon monoxide poisoning)