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:
“There were ghosts that returned to earth to hear his phrases,
As he sat there reading, aloud, the great blue tabulae.
They were those from the wilderness of stars that had expected more.
There were those that returned to hear him read from the poem of life,
Of the pans above the stove, the pots on the table, the tulips among them.
They were those that would have wept to step barefoot into reality....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God,”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 19:25.