blue babynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbluː ˌbeɪ.bi/us/ˈbluː ˌbeɪ.bi/a baby born with slightly blue skin, usually because it has something wrong with its heart
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Disorders & diseases of the heart & blood
- acquired agammaglobulinemia
- agammaglobulinemia
- agnogenic myeloid metaplasia
- anemic
- angina
- blood poisoning
- deep vein thrombosis
- dilated cardiomyopathy
- Ebstein's anomaly
- economy-class syndrome
- Eisenmenger syndrome
- endocarditis
- haemorrhage
- hypothermia
- leukaemia
- paediatric thrombocytopenia
- patent ductus arteriosus
- pediatric thrombocytopenia
- pericarditis
- peripheral vascular disease
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Examples from literature
- Children with imperfectly formed hearts may be otherwise perfect at birth, but they have a bluish color due to the imperfect supply of the blood with oxygen, and are known as blue babies.
- Rarely, this opening never closes and we have what is called a "blue baby," which seldom lives very long.