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Cyanosis is...

Cyanosis is

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Lack of oxygen in body fluids

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Difficult or heavy breathing

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Excess of carbon dixode in the body fluids

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Skin turning blue due to excessive amount of deoxygenated haemoglobin in the skin blood vessels

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Cyanosis is blueness of skin and occurs due to large amount fo deoxygenated hemoglobin in cutaneous vessels.
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