carbonæmia

English

Etymology

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

Noun

carbonæmia

  1. (medicine) An excessive amount of carbon, particularity carbon dioxide, in the blood.
    • 1875, Faneuil D. Weisee, “Nitrous Oxide Gas”, in The Sanitarian, volume II, page 29:
      While it produces less carbonæmia than the above mentioned agents, its special effect is to so alter the blood corpuscles as to prevent them from assimilating oxygen.

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