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pal⋅lor

  [pal-er]
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–noun
unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.
Origin:
1650–60; < L: paleness, equiv. to pall(ēre) to be pale + -or -or 1
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pal·lor   (pāl'ər)   
n.  Extreme or unnatural paleness.

[Middle English pallour, from Old French palor, from Latin pallor, from pallēre, to be pale; see pel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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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

Main Entry: pal·lor
Pronunciation: 'pal-&r
Function: noun
: deficiency of color especially of the face : PALENESS pallor —Scientific American Medicine>
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pallor pal·lor (pāl'ər)
n.
Paleness, as of the skin.

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