cyanosis
/ˌsaɪəˈnoʊsɪs/noun
cyanosis is a noun meaning “A blue discolouration of the skin due to the circulation of blood low in oxygen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-Y-A-N-O-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cyanosis is cyanoses.
What does cyanosis mean?
noun
- 1
A blue discolouration of the skin due to the circulation of blood low in oxygen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cyanosis?
- US /ˌsaɪəˈnoʊsɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-cyanosis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cyanosis
- cyanoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cyanosis?
Cyanosis appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate cyanosis?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of cyanosis: CCE.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cyanosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense discolouration of the skin:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cyanosis come from?
From cyano- + -osis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).