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hemochromatosis

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Etymology edit

From hemo- (“blood”) +‎ chromat- (“color”) +‎ -osis (“disease”), from the changing color of blood affected by the disorder.

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  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: hē'mōkrō'mətōʹsĭs, IPA(key): /ˌhiːmə(ʊ)ˌkɹəʊməˈtəʊsɪs/
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  • Rhymes: -əʊsɪs
  • Hyphenation: he‧mo‧chro‧ma‧to‧sis

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hemochromatosis (countable and uncountable, plural hemochromatoses)

  1. (pathology) A metabolic disorder causing iron deposits in the body, also called bronze diabetes.
    • 2001, Arthur Allen, “Who Owns My Disease?”, in Mother Jones‎[1]:
      Sometimes, it’s not the potential for big profits that restricts access to a gene test, but just the opposite-lack of commercial incentive. In 1996, a Stanford University research team found the gene for hemochromatosis, a little-known disease in which the blood absorbs abnormally high levels of iron from the diet.
    • 2005, Michael Rosenwald, “Will You Be Able to Predict—And Prevent—Your Disease?”, in Popular Science, volume 267, number 3, page 63:
      She flips another page and says, “Oh, now this is interesting.” Apparently I carry one of the two genetic mutations required to develop hemochromatosis, an iron-overload disorder that destroys the liver.
    • 2012, Mohammadali M. Shoja, R. Shane Tubbs, Alireza Ghaffari, Marios Loukas, Paul S. Agutter, “Rethinking the Origin of Chronic Diseases”, in BioScience, volume 62, number 5, Oxford UP, →DOI, page 470:
      Even if the two diseases in such a pair are clinically dissimilar, the primary pathophysiological events could overlap substantially (e.g., increased intestinal iron absorption in nutritional anemia and hemochromatosis).

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