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cyanosis

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • General-American: /ˌsaɪəˈnoʊsɪs/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

A blue discolouration of the skin due to the circulation of blood low in oxygen.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: symptom

Narrower terms: acrocyanosis, Raynaud's sign

History

Etymology

From cyano- + -osis.

Across languages

Translations

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: زرقة (zurqa) — discolouration of the skin
  • Azerbaijani: sianoz — discolouration of the skin
  • Belarusian: цыяноз (cyjanóz) — discolouration of the skin
  • Belarusian: сінюха (sinjuxa) — discolouration of the skin
  • Bulgarian: цианоза (cianoza) — discolouration of the skin
  • Catalan: cianosi — discolouration of the skin
  • Chinese Cantonese: 發紺 /发绀 (faat3 gam3) — discolouration of the skin
  • Chinese Mandarin: 發紺 /发绀 (fāgàn) — discolouration of the skin
  • Chinese Mandarin: 青紫 (qīngzǐ) — discolouration of the skin
  • Czech: cyanóza — discolouration of the skin
  • Danish: cyanose — discolouration of the skin
  • Dutch: cyanose — discolouration of the skin
  • Dutch: blauwzucht — discolouration of the skin
  • Finnish: syanoosi — discolouration of the skin
  • French: cyanose — discolouration of the skin
  • German: Zyanose — discolouration of the skin
  • Greek: κυάνωση (kyánosi) — discolouration of the skin
  • Hebrew: כִּחָלוֹן (kikhalón) — discolouration of the skin
  • Hebrew: צִיאָנוֹזִיס (tsianózis) — discolouration of the skin
  • Hungarian: cianózis — discolouration of the skin
  • Indonesian: sianosis — discolouration of the skin
  • Italian: cianosi — discolouration of the skin
  • Japanese: チアノーゼ (chianōze) — discolouration of the skin
  • Kazakh: көгеру (kögeru) — discolouration of the skin
  • Korean: 치아노제 (chianoje) — discolouration of the skin
  • Korean: 청색증 (cheongsaekjeung) — discolouration of the skin
  • Macedonian: цијаноза (cijanoza) — discolouration of the skin
  • Norwegian Bokmål: cyanose — discolouration of the skin
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: cyanose — discolouration of the skin
  • Polish: sinica — discolouration of the skin
  • Portuguese: cianose — discolouration of the skin
  • Russian: циано́з (cianóz) — discolouration of the skin
  • Russian: синю́ха (sinjúxa) — discolouration of the skin
  • Serbo-Croatian: цијано́за — discolouration of the skin
  • Serbo-Croatian: cijanóza — discolouration of the skin
  • Slovak: cyanóza — discolouration of the skin
  • Slovene: cianoza — discolouration of the skin
  • Spanish: cianosis — discolouration of the skin
  • Swedish: cyanos — discolouration of the skin
  • Turkish: siyanoz — discolouration of the skin
  • Ukrainian: ціано́з (cianóz) — discolouration of the skin
  • Ukrainian: синю́ха (synjúxa) — discolouration of the skin
  • Vietnamese: chứng xanh tím — discolouration of the skin
  • Welsh: dulasedd — discolouration of the skin
  • Welsh: seianosis — discolouration of the skin