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Answer for the clue "Characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin ", 9 letters:
chlorosis

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin [syn: greensickness ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chlorosis \Chlo*ro"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. chlwro`s light green: cf. F. chlorose.] (Med.) The green sickness; an an[ae]mic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc. (Bot.) A disease ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine countable English) An anaemia, due to deficiency of iron, characterized by a yellow-green colouration of the skin; greensickness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorosis%20(medicine)). 2 (context botany uncountable English) A yellowing ...

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Usage examples of chlorosis.

Now, in the case of a debilitated female patient, a physician naturally thinks first of chlorosis or the fluor albus or some other such adust ion of the womb.

Steady and frequent application treats hysteria, chlorosis, greensickness, neurasthenia and all manner of hysteroneurasthenic disorders, and even simple fatigue and melancholy.

I do not know, but we have some physicians who say that chlorosis in girls is the result of that pleasure indulged in to excess.