pallor
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ər noun
unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.
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| —n | |
| a pale condition, esp when unnatural: fear gave his face a deathly pallor | |
| [C17: from Latin: whiteness (of the skin), from pallēre to be | |
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Pallor
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Word Origin & History
pallor
c.1400, from O.Fr. palor "paleness," from L. pallor, from pallere "be pale," related to pallus "dark-colored, dusky," from PIE base *pel- "dark-colored, gray" (cf. Skt. palitah "gray," panduh "whitish, pale," Gk. pelios "livid," polios "gray," O.E. fealo "dull-colored, yellow, brown").
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Medical Dictionary
pallor pal·lor (pāl'ər)
n.
Paleness, as of the skin.
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Example sentences
The whole thing has a vaguely depressing high-fashion pallor, but the song is peppy enough to keep the scene moving.
His pallor was terrible, and his eyes were sunken.
The removal of blood from the skin may be massively reversed, extreme pallor being replaced by intense flushing and reddening.
He suffered from pallor and debility thirty-five hundred years ago.
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