carbohæmia

English

Etymology

From carbo- +‎ -hæmia, conjunction: Latin carbo (“charcol”) and Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).

Noun

carbohæmia (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Accumulation of wasteful elements of carbon or mere carbon inside blood.
   • 1868, Henry Mac Cormac, “Carbohæmia, The One And Only Possible Source Of Tubercle And Tubercle Induce Maladies”, in British Medical Journal, volume I, page 375:

     I submit, then, that tuberculisation is alone the result of carbohæmia, and that carbohæmia itself is induced by the respiration of air that has been respired before.

References

• Robley Dunglison (1895) A dictionary of medical science, page 187

See also

• carbonæmia