Cyanosis is the discoloration of the skin due to lack of oxygen. When the blood oxygen levels fall the circulatory system constructs vessels going to the skin so that more blood is routed to internal organs. Less blood at the skin surface m...
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I changed the line about deoxygenated blood being blue. This is a common belief even among scientists outside of the field of biology. When you give blood they are taking deoxygenated venous blood but ... Answers.com > Wiki Answers > Categories > Science > Chemistry > Question > Discussion of "What is heliotrope cyanosis?"
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Many flu victims in 1918 displayed a distinctive dusky blue-gray pallor on their face, lips, and ears, called heliotrope cyanosis -- a mark of a patient who is being suffocated to death by a buildup of fluid and cells in his lungs.
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This illustration shows a British soldier displaying the distinctive blue coloration of heliotrope cyanosis. ... Many flu victims in 1918 displayed a distinctive dusky blue-gray pallor on their face, lips, and ears, called heliotrope cyanosis -- a mark of a patient who is being suffocated to death by a buildup of fluid...
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First World War.com - A multimedia history of world war one ... However by the summer up to a third of influenza sufferers reported increasingly harsh symptoms, including bronchial pneumonia, heliotrope cyanosis and septicemic blood poisoning. A sizeable number died of their symptoms.
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A terrible prognostic sign was heliotrope cyanosis, a dusky facial flush as the peripheral circulation clamped down.1 It was noted on autopsy that patients would die with haemhorragic oedematous lungs, not having lived long enough for full pneumonic consolidation.1...
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Those patients who developed a lavender-grey hue over their face and ears, or heliotrope cyanosis as it is called, were facing imminent death. Pathology reports from 1918 describe very distinctive changes in lung tissue that were the likely cause of death in many victims and probably contributed to the heliotrope cyanosis.
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•No evidence that it originated in Spain. Separation from ... •USA outbreaks in March 1918 in Detroit, South Carolina, ... clinical characteristics of influenza (heliotrope cyanosis...
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