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Medical Term

blue baby

also: blue babies

the condition whereby an infant is born with CYANOSIS because of a congenital malformation of the heart. The result is that deoxygenated blood does not go through the lungs to be oxygenated but is pumped around the body. Surgery can usually be performed to correct the condition.

Source: mediLexicon corpus · slug blue-baby