Learn English – Other words for the cadaverous blue

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I am looking for the particular word (if it exists in English) for the ghastly blue colour of a dead person…

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Pathological blue coloration of the skin is known as cyanosis:

a bluish or purplish discoloration (as of skin) due to deficient oxygenation of the blood

A particularly notorious manifestation of this symptom occurred during the pan-global influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, and was termed heliotrope cyanosis because of the resemblance to the colour of the heliotrope flower, particularly in the faces of sufferers from the disease (a result of the deterioration of their lungs).

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