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noun

Chlorosis n.

(Med.) The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.

(Bot.) A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.

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Etymology of 'Chlorosis'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chlorosis" Quotes from Famous Books

... an enlargement of the womb. It also is one of the first symptoms of pregnancy. Sometimes it indicates an impoverished condition of the blood and shows the need of a general building up of the system. This is true especially in young girls who have what is called chlorosis or green sickness. These girls are pale, weak, sometimes having a greenish cast to their complexions. They need good care and nourishing food and ...

— Herself - Talks with Women Concerning Themselves • E. B. Lowry

... is to be considered as the primitive cause, special or sui generis, of goitre and Cretinism;' that the existence of the diseases does not depend on the presence more or less of sulphate of lime or magnesia in the animal economy; that 'iodine acts in goitre as iron in chlorosis—by restoring to the system one of its essential principles;' and that 'the most powerful secondary or auxiliary causes are: a coarse and uniform vegetable regimen; living at the bottom of deep, enclosed valleys; in low and damp houses, into which air and light ...

— Chambers' Edinburgh Journal - Volume XVII., No 422, New Series, January 31, 1852 • Various

Words linked to "Chlorosis" : iron deficiency anaemia, iron deficiency anemia