Blue skin may refer to:
- Argyria, caused by the ingestion of elemental silver, silver dust or silver compounds
- Methemoglobinemia, the presence of excessive levels of Methemoglobin in the blood
- Cyanosis, caused by the presence of deoxygenated hemoglobin in blood vessels near the skin surface
- Blue baby syndrome
- Purpura
- Bruise
- Petechia
Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or skin:
“At twelve, the disintegration of afternoon
Began, the return to phantomerei, if not
To phantoms. Till then, it had been the other way:
One imagined the violet trees but the trees stood green,
At twelve, as green as ever they would be.
The sky was blue beyond the vaultiest phrase.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Your old skin puckering, your lungs’ breath
Grown baby short as you looked up last
At my face swinging over the human bed,
And somewhere you cried, let me go let me go.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)