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