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Chlorosis

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Noun
  1. 1
    An anaemia, due to deficiency of iron, characterized by a yellow-green coloration of the skin. countable

    "The effects of hemoglobin in anemia and chlorosis, and even in tuberculosis, are due to its triple action; it acts opotherapeutically, through the blood oxydases, which it contains when properly prepared."

  2. 2
    iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin wordnet
  3. 3
    A yellowing of plant tissue due to loss or absence of chlorophyll. uncountable

Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin; by surface analysis, chlor- + -osis, where chlor- in this instance refers to pale yellow-green colorations and not to chlorine.

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