chlorosis

English

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.

Noun

chlorosis (countable and uncountable, plural chloroses)

2. (medicine, countable) An anaemia, due to deficiency of iron, characterized by a yellow-green coloration of the skin.

   Synonyms: greensickness; chloremia (sometimes loosely synonymous)

   • 1915, “Hemoglobin in Anemia”, in American Medicine, volume 21, page 22:

     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.

4. (botany, phytopathology, uncountable) A yellowing of plant tissue due to loss or absence of chlorophyll.

Derived terms

• Egyptian chlorosis (not hyponymous)

 

Related terms

• chlorotic (adj)

 

Translations

yellow-green colouration of the skin

• Catalan: clorosi f
• French: chlorose (fr) f
• Italian: clorosi f
• Polish: bladaczka f (dated), blednica f, chloroza f
• Portuguese: clorose (pt) f, cloremia f
• Spanish: clorosis f
• Tagalog: klorosis
• Turkish: kloroz (tr)
• Welsh: clorosis m, y glasglwyf m

yellowing of the leaves

• Catalan: clorosi f
• French: chlorose (fr) f
• Italian: clorosi f
• Portuguese: clorose (pt) f
• Spanish: clorosis f
• Turkish: kloroz (tr), sarıcalık (tr)
• Welsh: clorosis m, glesni m

See also

• jaundice (also involves pale and yellowish complexions)

 

Anagrams

• isochlors