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[Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + -meter:
cf. F. cyanomètre.] An instrument for
measuring degress of blueness.


Cy`a*nop"a*thy (-n?p"?-th?), n.
[Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + pa`qos
affection.] (Med.) A disease in which the body is
colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation
of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the
blood; blue jaundice.


Cy*an"o*phyll (s?-?n"?-f?l), n.
[Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance +
fy`llon leaf.] (Bot.) A blue coloring
matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts of
chlorophyll.


Cy"a*nosed (s?"?-n?st), a. [See
Cyanic.] Rendered blue, as the surface of the body,
from cyanosis or deficient aëration of the blood.


||Cy`a*no"sis (s?`?-n?"s?s), n.
[NL. See Cyanic.] (Med.) A condition in which,
from insufficient aëration of the blood, the surface of the
body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy.


Cy*an"o*site (s?-?n"?-s?t), n. [See
Cyanic.] (Min.) Native sulphate of copper. Cf.
Blue vitriol, under Blue.


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