pallor

[pal-er] /ˈpæl ər/
noun
1.
unusual or extreme paleness, as from fear, ill health, or death; wanness.
Origin
1650-60; < Latin: paleness, equivalent to pall(ēre) to be pale + -or -or1
Can be confused
pale, pail, pall, pallor (see synonym study at pale)
Examples from the web for pallor
  • Tan, with a tummy enviably toned in little rolls, he wanted to gloat over my city-induced pallor.
  • Low blood pressure (hypotension), fast heart rate (tachycardia) and pallor are all typically present.
  • You wouldn't know it from my carefully cultivated pallor.
  • But in some people it can trigger an autonomic nervous system response that may include intense sweating, pallor, and confusion.
  • The removal of blood from the skin may be massively reversed, extreme pallor being replaced by intense flushing and reddening.
  • She could see the uncoordinated rolling of my eyes, the death pallor of my face, the wobble of my legs.
  • Then he held his hands out before him, as if wondering at their hairless pallor.
  • His pallor was terrible, and his eyes were sunken.
  • Serling's writing remains uniquely righteous - a quality enhanced by the show's literal black-and-white pallor.
  • But it shares the same ghostly pallor as others that have been observed at similar depths.
British Dictionary definitions for pallor

pallor

/ˈpælə/
noun
1.
a pale condition, esp when unnatural: fear gave his face a deathly pallor
Word Origin
C17: from Latin: whiteness (of the skin), from pallēre to be pale1
Word Origin and History for pallor
n.

c.1400, from Old French palor "paleness, whiteness" (12c.) and directly from Latin pallor, from pallere "be pale, turn pale," related to pallus "dark-colored, dusky," from PIE root *pel- (2) "pale; gray" (cf. Sanskrit palitah "gray," panduh "whitish, pale;" Greek pelios "livid, dark," polios "gray;" Old English fealo "dull-colored, yellow, brown;" Welsh llwyd "gray").

pallor in Medicine

pallor pal·lor (pāl'ər)
n.
Paleness, as of the skin.