Xanthemia
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Xanthemia is a noun meaning (pathology) The occurrence of yellow matter in the blood.
Meaning
(pathology) The occurrence of yellow matter in the blood.
More Meanings
- (pathology) The occurrence of yellow skin
Example Sentences
Among the latter, incipient nephritis and metabolic anomalies, as xanthemia, arthritis uritica, oxaluria are common.
Carotin was inferred, not demonstrated, in these cases, although Salomon measured the extent of the "xanthemia" in certain individuals by determining the extinction coefficient of the absorption bands of the ether extract of the blood.
False jaundice or carotenemia (xanthemia) is an unusual and abnormal yellowness of the human skin, sometimes actually appearing in the sweat, resulting from the ingestion of carotenoid-rich food such as carrots, oranges or yellow cucurbits in large quantities over protracted periods.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include xanthaemia, xanthopathy, xanthosis, xanthochroia, xanthopia, xanthochromism.
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