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• Cyanosis — The bluish color of the skin and the mucous membranes (for example, of the lips) due to there being insufficient oxygen in the blood. The word cyanosis comes from the Greek cyanos meaning dark blue. * * * A dark bluish or purplish discoloration… …   Medical dictionary

• livedo — A bluish discoloration of the skin, either in limited patches or general. [L. lividness, fr. liveo, to be black and blue] postmortem l. a purple coloration of dependent parts, except in areas of contact pressure, appearing within one half to two… …   Medical dictionary

• Chadwick's sign — is a bluish discoloration of the cervix, vagina, and labia caused by the hormone estrogen which results in venous congestion. It can be observed as early as 6 8 weeks after conception[1], and its presence is an early sign of pregnancy. These… …   Wikipedia

• Cyanosis — A baby with a heart condition. Note purple nailbeds. ICD 10 R23.0 ICD 9 …   Wikipedia

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• Sign — Any abnormality that indicates a disease process, such as a change in appearance, sensation, or function, that is observed by a physician when evaluating a patient. * * * 1. Any abnormality indicative of disease, discoverable on examination of… …   Medical dictionary

• argyria — A slate gray or bluish discoloration of the skin and deep tissues, due to the deposit of insoluble albuminate of silver, occurring after the medicinal administration for a long period of a soluble silver salt; formerly fairly common from use of… …   Medical dictionary

• congenital heart disease — Deformity of the heart. Examples include septal defect (opening in the septum between the sides of the heart), atresia (absence) or stenosis (narrowing) of one or more valves, tetralogy of Fallot (with four components: ventricular septal defect,… …   Universalium

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