chlorosis

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.

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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: green fever, green sickness, 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.

• isochlors