gray baby syndrome
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[gra]a potentially fatal condition seen in neonates, particularly premature infants, due to a reaction to chloramphenicol, characterized by an ashen gray cyanosis, listlessness, weakness, and hypotension. Called also gray baby syndrome.
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gray syn·drome
, gray baby syndromegray appearance of an infant at birth and during the neonatal period that can be caused by transplacental toxic effects of the drug chloramphenicol taken by the mother during late pregnancy; the syndrome may be fatal.
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gray syn·drome
, gray baby syndrome (grā sin'drōm, bā'bē)Ashen appearance of an infant at birth and during the neonatal period that can be caused by transplacental toxic effects of the drug chloramphenicol taken by the mother during late pregnancy; the syndrome may be fatal.
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