carbonæmia

English

Etymology

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

Noun

carbonæmia

1. (medicine) Excessive amount of carbon, particularity carbon dioxide, in 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.

References

• Robley Dunglison (1895) A dictionary of medical science, page 188

See also

• carbohæmia