Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

gray baby syndrome

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.00 in modern English

Syllables
gray baby syn-drome
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
11
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What does gray baby syndrome mean?
A rare but dangerous condition in newborn infants given the antibiotic chloramphenicol, characterized among other symptoms by an ashen gray color of the skin.

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