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Definition of Chlorosis
1. Noun. Iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin.
Definition of Chlorosis
1. n. The green sickness; an anæmic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.
Definition of Chlorosis
1. Noun. (medicine) An anaemia, due to deficiency of iron, characterized by a yellow-green colouration of the skin; greensickness. ¹
2. Noun. (botany) A yellowing of plant tissue due to loss or absence of chlorophyll. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chlorosis
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Medical Definition of Chlorosis
1. Yellowing or bleaching of plant tissues due to the loss of chlorophyll or failure of chlorophyll synthesis. Symptomatic of many plant diseases, also of deficiencies of light or certain nutrients. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chlorosis
Literary usage of Chlorosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"(2) Anemia is therefore not the cardinal symptom of chlorosis, ... (4) It is
improbable that the curative action of iron in chlorosis is to be ascribed to a ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1916)
"That the chlorosis in Porto Rico is induced by the carbonate of lime was ...
We may thus speak of one as a manganese-induced chlorosis and the other as a ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Primary or Essential Anemia (a) chlorosis (Green sickness, ... chlorosis may be
diagnosticated in the absence of the picture of true anemia when there is a ..."
4. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1893)
"THE object of this paper is to show that chlorosis is produced by changes ...
Sir Andrew Clark in an excellent paper on "The Anaemia and chlorosis of Girls, ..."
5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1894)
"chlorosis in Men.—Dr. CF Martin, of Montreal, records four cases of chlorosis in
the male. chlorosis is almost universally regarded as a disease which, ..."
6. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by James Meschter Anders (1915)
"chlorosis is steadily diminishing in frequency of occurrence. Etiology.—chlorosis
occurs most frequently in girls at or near puberty, and also may appear ..."
7. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1916)
"chlorosis Definition.—An ana?mia of unknown cause, occurring in young girls, ...
Hereditary influences, particularly chlorosis and tuberculosis, ..."
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