melanaemia

English

Alternative forms

melanemia

Etymology

Ancient Greek black + blood.

Noun

melanaemia (uncountable)

(medicine) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment, either floating freely or embedded in the white blood cells.

Translations

Spanish: melanemia (es)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “melanaemia”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)