单词 | blue disease |
释义 | > as lemmasblue disease blue disease n. [after French maladie bleue (1801 or earlier)] Medicine cyanosis; a condition giving rise to this, esp. congenital heart disease or (in later use) methaemoglobinaemia. ΚΠ 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 10 575 The history of an appearance, called in French the Blue Disease, (Maladie Blue) or that blueish livid appearance arising from malconformation of the heart, or the great vessels carrying on the circulation, was read at the Medical Society of Nancy. 1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 575 A violet or blueish colour of the skin..named by several authors the blue jaundice, the blue disease, or cyanose. 1901 W. Osler Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 4) 768 Cyanosis..forms so distinctive a feature that the terms ‘blue disease’ and ‘morbus cæruleus’ are practically synonyms for congenital heart-disease. 2003 Amer. Biol. Teacher 65 46/1 At this point, the students are still unsure as to how the reduced form of hemoglobin produces blue disease. < as lemmas |
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