Crossword clues for pallor
pallor
- Sickly lack of color
- Wan quality
- Sickly white
- White-as-a-ghost look
- Unhealthy whiteness
- Unhealthy paleness
- Unhealthy complextion
- Unhealthy complexion
- Unhealthy appearance
- Tan's opposite
- Sign of sickness
- Sickly complexion
- Mask of death
- Look of one who's just seen a ghost
- Ghostly shade
- Facial chalkiness
- Ashen look
- Whiteness
- Wanness
- Washed-out look
- Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
- Lividity
- Anemic color
- Lack of color
- Whiteness of china egg held in both hands
- Paleness from friend left in front of soldiers
- Pale appearance
- Unnatural lack of skin colour
- Unnatural lack of colour
- Flu symptom
- Pale color
- Ashen complexion
- Sickly look
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
pallor \pal"lor\, n. [L., fr. pallere to be or look pale. See
Pale, a.]
Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the
complexion.
--Jer. Taylor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French palor "paleness, whiteness" (12c.) and directly from Latin pallor, from pallere "be pale, turn pale," related to pallus "dark-colored, dusky," from PIE root *pel- (2) "pale; gray" (cognates: Sanskrit palitah "gray," panduh "whitish, pale;" Greek pelios "livid, dark," polios "gray;" Old English fealo "dull-colored, yellow, brown;" Welsh llwyd "gray").
Wiktionary
n. paleness; want of color; pallidity.
WordNet
n. unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) [syn: lividness, lividity, luridness, paleness, pallidness, wanness, achromasia]
Wikipedia
Pallor is a pale color of the skin that can be caused by illness, emotional shock or stress, stimulant use, or anemia, and is the result of a reduced amount of oxyhaemoglobin and is visible in skin or mucous membrane.
Pallor is more evident on the face and palms. It can develop suddenly or gradually, depending on the cause. It is not usually clinically significant unless it is accompanied by a general pallor (pale lips, tongue, palms, mouth and other regions with mucous membranes). It is distinguished from similar presentations such as hypopigmentation (lack or loss of skin pigment) or simply a fair complexion.
Usage examples of "pallor".
He kept a close watch on Joscelin, who stood at his guard-position without expression, only his pallor betraying his emotions.
I had to put aside like a curtain the pallor of the marble to go back, in so far as possible, from those motionless contours to the living form, from the hard texture of Paros or Pentelikon to the flesh itself.
In a case studied by Fevrier the exploration of a lateral pharyngeal fistula produced by the introduction of the sound violent reflex phenomena, such as pallor of the face and irregular, violent beating of the heart.
Underlit by the phosphor pallor of the runes that channeled the thrust ef the lane tides, he slapped out a persistent, smoldering spark still raising smoke from his sleeve cuff.
His facesave for the ample purple protuberance of his nose had faded to a greenish, sickly pallor.
Cellular reprofiling was a cosmetic treatment for the poor and the vain, not a method of adding fat and giving skin a pasty pallor.
She looked quite handsome, and I did not at first recognize her without the ghastly pallor and schmattes she wore in the ghetto.
Eastern eyes and the mouth that showed so vividly scarlet against its unchildish pallor.
Eisean had lapsed into a deep and unrousable state of unconsciousness, his pallor drained to the unnatural, ghastly tone of one hovering near death.
He sat beside her and held her hand, gazing upon her face, so lifelike despite its chalklike pallor.
In worming against her warmth he has pulled her dress up from her knees, and their repulsive breadth and pallor, laid bare defenselessly, superimposed upon the tiny, gamely gritted teeth the boy exposed for him, this old whiteness strained through this fine mesh, make a milk that feels to Eccles like his own blood.
Rigorous application of the intellectual faculties consumes the blood, exhausts the vital forces, weakens the organic functions, while pallor covers the face, and the eyes sparkle with a hectic radiance.
Why does the apologist leave unmentioned the symptoms following the subsequent experiments,--the pallor and depression, the blue lips, the difficulty in locomotion, the decided paresis and rigidity of muscles, the profound unconsciousness, THE FINAL PARALYSIS?
And when a character does not die, when he or she is neither consumptive, nor epileptic, nor hysterical, nor paranoid, nor schizophrenic, nor alcoholic, nor a sick prostitute, nor a sexual pervert, there is still evidence of morbid behaviour: sudden pallor, vivid blushes, burning eyes, trembling and fits, swoons.
She had a childish face and was short and slender and in addition walked with a pronounced limp, but despite her pallor she kept her chin high and gaze steady as she looked first at Alain and then over the assembled soldiers and local people for whom she was responsible as Count of Lavas.