lividity
noun
a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise, pooling of blood due to congestion of blood vessels, strangulation, etc..
Example Sentences
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Von Holtz’s pallor changed subtly from the pallor of fear to the awful lividness of rage.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 by Various
My sister's well-known and beloved features could not be concealed by convulsion or lividness.
From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Charles Brockden Brown
Pale and livid combs are as certain a sign of bad health in fowls, as the paleness or lividness of the lips is in human beings.
Cy′anite, a mineral composed of alumina and silica, generally sky-blue; Cyanom′eter, an instrument for measuring the degrees of blueness of the sky or ocean; CyanÅ′sis, morbid lividness of the skin, blue jaundice.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
The face is fearsome pale and of an immovable waxen lividness, in which the purple lips fall slightly apart.
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
