| Library / English Dictionary |
PALLOR
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
Synonyms:
achromasia; lividity; lividness; luridness; paleness; pallidness; pallor; wanness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("pallor" is a kind of...):
complexion; skin color; skin colour (the coloring of a person's face)
Derivation:
pale (turn pale, as if in fear)
Context examples:
Clinical manifestations include decreased visual acuity; EXOPHTHALMOS; NYSTAGMUS; STRABISMUS; pallor or swelling of the optic disc; and INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION.
(Optic Nerve Glioma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Sir, said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, that thing was not my master, and there’s the truth.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAMA) Autonomic symptoms; dry mouth, flushing, pallor, tendency to sweat, giddiness, tension, headache, raising of hair.
(HAMA - Autonomic Symptoms, NCI Thesaurus)
Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAMA) Behavior at interview; fidgeting, restlessness or pacing, tremor of hands, furrowed brow, strained face, sighing or rapid respiration, facial pallor, swallowing, etc.
(HAMA - Behavior at Interview, NCI Thesaurus)
When they went back to be kissed and cuddled by faithful Hannah, they found Beth lying, as she used to do, with her cheek pillowed on her hand, the dreadful pallor gone, and breathing quietly, as if just fallen asleep.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It usually occurs in males and is characterized by fatigue in the hips, thighs, or calves on exercising, absence of pulsation in the femoral arteries, impotence, and often pallor and coldness of the lower limbs.
(Leriche Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The confident smile with which he had watched the opening rounds had long vanished from his lips, and his cheeks had turned of a sallow pallor, whilst his small, fierce grey eyes looked furtively from under his craggy brows, and more than once he burst into savage imprecations when Wilson was beaten to the ground.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The nocturnal visitor was a young man, frail and thin, with a black moustache, which intensified the deadly pallor of his face.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Martin's sunburn had been bleached by his work in the laundry and by the indoor life he was living, while the hunger and the sickness had made his face even pale; and across this pallor flowed the slow wave of a blush.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
