blue skin
Suffocation's visible sign
Blue skin describes skin with a bluish tint, usually indicating a medical condition.
Cyanosis causes blue skin when blood lacks sufficient oxygen.
Some medications, notably colloidal silver, can permanently discolor skin blue.
In fiction, blue-skinned beings—aliens, genies, Hindu deities—are common.
The Fugates of Kentucky famously carried a gene causing hereditary blue skin.
- Na'viFictional blue-skinned species
- cyanosisBlue skin from low oxygen
- KrishnaEighth avatar of Vishnu
- cold exposureContact with low temperatures
- ice coldExtremely chilled, near freezing
holding your breath · hypoxia · Appalachia · frostbite · heart failure · Shiva · hypothermia · carbon monoxide poisoning · congenital heart defects · asphyxiation · Avatar · pallor · choking · purple · bloodless · oxygen · respiratory failure · bruise
- AvatarNa'vi, Pandora, banshee, RDA, unobtanium
- oxygen deprivationhypoxia, hypoxemia, cyanosis, shortness of breath, SpO2
- birth defectsbirth defect, birth defects, malformation, cleft lip, cleft palate
- SmurfsPapa Smurf, Smurfette, Brainy Smurf, mushroom houses
- divine symbolshalo, nimbus, aureole, all-seeing eye, third eye
- VishnuVishnu, avatars, Krishna, Rama, Buddha
blue skinflushed skin
Reddened bodily surface
warm skin · red skin · healthy glow · blushing · rosy cheeks