What's the difference between bluish and livid?

Bluish


Definition:

  • (a.) Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When pouring liquid nitrogen over the spots, a very intense bluish-white fluorescence followed by a long-lasting greenish phosphorescence is observed.
  • (2) Immediately after birth a 1 cm soft, bluish mass of the right thenar eminence was clinically diagnosed as a hemangioma.
  • (3) They were bright blue, light blue, bluish green and yellow colors of fluorescence respectively.
  • (4) All lesions were sharply delineated, started with red to purple discoloration and then turned to bluish-black indicating gangrene.
  • (5) The small vessels were thickened with the deposition of homogeneous bluish pink material.
  • (6) A full-term black boy had a 2- to 3-cm, round, bluish mass on his right lower eye-lid at birth, later diagnosed as rhabdomyosarcoma.
  • (7) Pyoderma gangrenosum cannot be viewed simply as "an ulcer with undermined bluish borders," since this description recognizes only one stage of the evolving process.
  • (8) The expression of two epitopes on the same cellular constituent is outlined by the coappearance of both enzyme activities as a bluish-purple colour.
  • (9) During the third week of life, bluish-red subcutaneous nodules were noticed.
  • (10) The typical case of ACA starts with a limited inflammatory lesion, which is gradually replaced by atrophy and the skin shows a bluish, red discoloration.
  • (11) However, when spotting the alkaline solutions on filter paper and examining the spots under U.V., strong bluish-white fluorescence is obtained.
  • (12) An unusual bluish discolouration of the nose was noticed in a woman 9 months after she had begun treatment with a coronary vasodilator, amiodarone hydrochloride.
  • (13) In contrast, nonaliased bluish jets, suggesting laminar flow away from the transducer, were seen in echocardiograms from 27 patients in Group 2.
  • (14) Observations showed that the female pronucleus, eccentrically placed, gives a bright green-bluish fluorescence whereas chromatin of sperm heads shows different stages of decondensation and also a bright fluorescence.
  • (15) In this manner, the red acidophilic granules are in sharp contrast to the lipofuscin deposits stained in a bluish shade.
  • (16) At 18 months she presented with a bluish skin pigmentation, hepatosplenomegaly, generalised lymphadenopathy and non-responsive fever.
  • (17) We conclude that (1) intestinal perforation can occur in the absence of NEC; (2) bluish discoloration of the abdomen is the most reliable clinical finding; and (3) perforation may be associated with coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection.
  • (18) Yeast vegetative cells were stained reddish purple, but zygotic asci were bluish.
  • (19) Symmetrical lividity (SL) was the term coined by Pernet in 1925 for symmetrical, bluish-red plaques on the soles of the feet, accompanied by hyperhidrosis and not corresponding to areas of pressure or patterns of innervation.
  • (20) A 66-year-old pensioner developed distinct, erythematosquamous and keratonic lesions on the hands and feet within 2 months, and also a progressive red-bluish discoloration of the whole integument.

Livid


Definition:

  • (a.) Black and blue; grayish blue; of a lead color; discolored, as flesh by contusion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lesions were annular or serpiginous and their surface was livid-red to pale-red.
  • (2) Informed sources in Germany said Merkel was livid about the reports that the NSA had bugged her phone and was convinced, on the basis of a German intelligence investigation, that the reports were utterly substantiated.
  • (3) While we could suppress the hyperhidrosis with topical therapy, this failed to clear his hyperkeratosis or eliminate the livid color.
  • (4) Republicans in turn are livid that national Democratic party money has already been spent trying to sway voters in the primary election battle between Tillis and Brannon.
  • (5) That's a bad hockey play and Rangers fans will be livid.
  • (6) The external data of lividity, rigor, mechanical and electrical excitability of facial muscles and the chemical excitability of the iris have all been gathered from literature, chronologically arranged and clearly presented.
  • (7) In our experimental settings we observed appearance of circumscribed linear marks of pallor similar to electric lesions in the region of postmortem lividity of corpses at the same level as bathtub water.
  • (8) He began to talk to Russian and European space agencies about launching Cobe, but when Nasa got wind of this, its officials were livid.
  • (9) Acral ischemia with lividity is a well-described dermatologic sign in the myeloproliferative diseases polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia.
  • (10) The hawkish American law professor Alan Dershowitz, livid that Finkelstein had been invited in the first place, inserted himself into the affair, writing a thundering editorial in the Jerusalem Post.
  • (11) Not only hyperhidrosis was abolished, but associated symptoms, such as lividity of palms or soles, acral hypothermia and edema of fingers or toes, also subsided.
  • (12) It's worth remembering the details of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia ’s sale for $7.8bn (now valued at $122b n) and its recent $5.8b n dividend for 2013 they are understandably livid towards the insanity of the cult of privatisation.
  • (13) Symmetrical lividity (SL) was the term coined by Pernet in 1925 for symmetrical, bluish-red plaques on the soles of the feet, accompanied by hyperhidrosis and not corresponding to areas of pressure or patterns of innervation.
  • (14) The behaviour of post-mortem lividity at the shackle-point and its surrounding areas in some cases may allow to draw a conclusion, if shackle occurred during life or after death.
  • (15) My roommate chimed in, “Well, if she was that drunk, then she deserved to get raped.” I was livid and vehemently defended the victim, and this was before I had even processed the sexual assault perpetrated against me.
  • (16) 20 December TB was livid that GB, without any consultation at all, wrote off third world debt – £155m over 10 years – while telling us he could do nothing more for the NHS to pre-empt a winter crisis.
  • (17) Six weeks after a holiday trip to Yugoslavia, a previously well 48-year-old man developed a reddish-livid, firm nodule, 0.5 cm in diameter, on the proximal joint of the right thumb.
  • (18) Moreover she had a ;moon face', hypertension, a ;buffalo hump', and livid striae of the loins and hypogastrium.
  • (19) Some of those yet to receive ballot papers include family members of people working on the leadership campaigns, as well as the Guardian journalist John Harris, who said he was livid about the lack of vote and inability to get through to the party on its helpline.
  • (20) Thousands of them rattling at once sounds like the stadium is full of livid snakes.