chloræmia Path.
(kləˈriːmɪə)
Also -emia.
[mod.L., f. chlor-1 + Gr. αἷµα blood.]
(See quot. 1961.)
| 1890 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 31 May 1239/1 Chloremia... A blood disorder, either idiopathic or associated with other ailments, consisting essentially of a greatly diminished percentage of hæmoglobin, and of a variable decrease in that of the red corpuscles. 1907 Practitioner June 826 To the greater part..of the symptom complex of nephritis, he [sc. Widal] gives the name chloraemia. 1961 Brit. Med. Dict. 293/2 Chloraemia, 1. A condition in which the blood contains an excess of chlorides. 2. Chlorosis (green sickness). |