| 单词 | blue baby |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblue baby blue baby n. [compare French enfant bleu (1819 or earlier)] a baby with cyanosis, esp. as a result of congenital heart disease or, in later use, methaemoglobinaemia (cf. blue disease n.); frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > deficiency of air or oxygen > person blue baby1858 1858 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 27 May 329 The color was not bilious, neither was it the purple of a ‘blue’ baby, but of that peculiar cast which would have caused it to be mistaken for a negro child. 1903 R. H. Babcock Dis. Heart xxix. 692 The little patient had been a blue baby from birth. 1957 M. Frank & B. Clark First Lady of Seeing Eye (1964) xii. 147 Dr. Alfred Blalock, the surgeon now famous for his ‘blue baby’ operation, operated. 2006 New Scientist 21 Jan. 41 For example, nitrates from farm run-off can get into drinking water, and this has been linked to methaemoglobinaemia, or ‘blue baby syndrome’. < as lemmas |
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