Definition of "blue baby" []

• An infant born with cyanosis as a result of a congenital cardiac or pulmonary defect that causes inadequate oxygenation of the blood. (noun)

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• "I reexamined what little I knew: She was born at Norell Clinic; she was a blue baby and stayed on a monitor for three days."