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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 in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.
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 of plant tissue due to loss or absence of chlorophyll (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorosis%20(plant%20disorder)).
WordNet
n. iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin [syn: greensickness]
Wikipedia
In botany, chlorosis is a condition in which leaves produce insufficient chlorophyll. As chlorophyll is responsible for the green color of leaves, chlorotic leaves are pale, yellow, or yellow-white. The affected plant has little or no ability to manufacture carbohydrates through photosynthesis and may die unless the cause of its chlorophyll insufficiency is treated, although some chlorotic plants, such as the albino Arabidopsis thaliana mutant ppi2, are viable if supplied with exogenous sucrose.
Chlorosis is derived from the Greek khloros meaning 'greenish-yellow', 'pale green', 'pale', 'pallid', or 'fresh'.
In viticulture, the most common symptom of poor nutrition in grapevines is the yellowing of grape leaves caused by chlorosis and the subsequent loss of chlorophyll. This is often seen in vineyard soils that are high in limestone such as the Italian wine region of Barolo in the Piedmont, the Spanish wine region of Rioja and the French wine regions of Champagne and Burgundy. In these soils the grapevine often struggles to pull sufficient levels of iron which is a needed component in the production of chlorophyll.
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.