carbohæmia
English
Etymology
carbo- + -hæmia, conjunction: Latin carbo (“charcol”) and Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).
Noun
carbohæmia (uncountable)
- (medicine) Accumulation of wasteful elements of carbon or mere carbon inside blood.
- 1868, Henry Mac Cormac, “Carbohæmia, The One And Only Possible Source Of Tubercle And Tubercle Induce Maladies”, in British Medical Journal, volume I, page 375:
- I submit, then, that tuberculisation is alone the result of carbohæmia, and that carbohæmia itself is induced by the respiration of air that has been respired before.
References
- Robley Dunglison (1895) A dictionary of medical science, page 187
See also
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