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Chlorosis   Listen
noun
Chlorosis  n.  
1.
(Med.) The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.
2.
(Bot.) A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.





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"Chlorosis" Quotes from Famous Books



... THE DISEASES OF WOMEN. A Descriptive and Practical Work, showing the Superiority of Water Treatment in Menstruation and its Disorders, Chlorosis, Leucorrhoea, Fluor Albus, Prolapsus Uteri, Hysteria, Spinal Diseases, and other Weaknesses of Females in Pregnancy and its Diseases, Abortion, Uterine Hemorrhage and the General Management of Childbirth, Nursing, etc., etc. Illustrated with Numerous Cases of Treatment. ...
— Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages • William Andrus Alcott
... tired, irritable, poor or changeable appetite, digestive disturbances, constipation, cold hands and feet, difficult and painful menstruation (dysmenorrhea), irregular menstruation, leucorrhea. And when the skin is pale, yellowish green tinge, with perhaps flushed cheeks, it might properly be called chlorosis ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter


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


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