Definition of blue baby in US English:
blue baby
nounˈblo͞o ˌbābēˈblu ˌbeɪbi
A baby with a blue complexion from lack of oxygen in the blood due to a congenital defect of the heart or major blood vessels.
as modifier blue baby syndrome
Example sentencesExamples
- It can save a blue baby from Rwanda, and deny treatment to an uninsured middle-class baby in Chicago.
- According to my Mother I was born a blue baby - due to a lack of oxygen.
- High levels of nitrate in drinking water, which can be due to agricultural runoff, have been implicated in human health problems, such as blue baby syndrome.
- In a clinical setting this species has been implicated in the so-called blue baby syndrome and nitratebased fertilizer poisonings.
- Nitrates can cause blue baby syndrome - a blood chemistry defect in which the blood's ability to carry oxygen is reduced.
- It wouldn't have surprised me to find out that he had also been a blue baby.
- ‘It's given to mothers to prevent blue babies,’ he said.
- When ingested, nitrogen interferes with the blood's ability to carry oxygen, a condition known as methemoglobinemia, or blue baby syndrome, which can be fatal to infants.
- He was one of 20 Iraqi blue babies (cyanotic heart disease) who were flown to India this month.
- Nitrates in drinking water have been linked to blue baby syndrome, a condition where the oxygen - carrying capacity of an infant's blood is impaired.