CYANOPATHY
\sˌa͡ɪɐnˈɒpəθɪ], \sˌaɪɐnˈɒpəθɪ], \s_ˌaɪ__ɐ_n_ˈɒ_p_ə_θ_ɪ]\
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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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A disease in which the surface of the body is coloured blue. It is often symptomatic, and commonly depends on a direct communication remaining between the cavities of the right and left side of the heart; Patency of the foramen ovale, Acleitrocardie. - Piorry. Such communication does not, however, always occasion the blue disease,but it is generally thought that the disease never exists without this stato of parts; or without some obstacle to the circulation in the right side of the heart. The blueness does not seem to be owing to the admixture of black and red blood. A child affected with blueness is said to be cyanosed, (F.) Cyanose.
By Robley Dunglison
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