pallor Definition
pal·lor (pal′ər)
noun
lack of color; unnatural paleness, as of the face, associated with poor health, fear, etc.
Etymology: L < base of pallere, to be pale, akin to pallidus, pale
pallor Synonyms
pallor Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- death: He wears a black beaver hat and a black Inverness coat and his face has on it the pallor of death.
- smoker: An example: The lackluster pallor of a smoker 's complexion is a result of inadequately nourished skin cells.
- skin: Associated marked pallor of the skin has led to these attacks being called Pallid Syncope.
Converse of object
- include: Warning signs of falling blood pressure include pallor, sweating, nausea or feeling generally unwell.
- have: His skin has the shiny pallor of someone who has never seen daylight.
- mottle: He spun round with a scream and fell upon his back, his hideous red face turning suddenly to a dreadful mottled pallor.
- sweat: Typical signs and symptoms may include hypertension, hyperglycaemia, headache, palpitations, sweating, pallor and nausea.
- cause: Reduced blood flow to the skin may cause pallor, pain, coldness of hands and feet and sometimes numbness or tingling.
Adjective modifier
- deathly: She was standing with glaring eyes, parted lips, and a deathly pallor on her worn face.
- sickly: A sickly pallor overspread his countenance, and he trembled like an aspen.
- gray: After another ten years, smokers develop dry skin and a gray pallor.
- lackluster: An example: The lackluster pallor of a smoker's complexion is a result of inadequately nourished skin cells.
- unhealthy: Make-up didn't quite hide the dark rings under her eyes or the unhealthy pallor of her skin.
- facial: Her tongue color had subdued and she had lost the facial pallor.
Modifies a noun
tenderness: The rotation then pallor tenderness on them can do.
Noun used with modifier
skin: Pernicious anemia also causes soreness of the tongue, loss of weight, skin pallor often with a lemon tint, and intermittent diarrhea.
Browse dictionary entries near pallor
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- ‹ palliate
- ‹ palliasse
- ‹ pallette
- ‹ palletize
- ‹ pallet
- ‹ pallbearer
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