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carbonæmia

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *kerh₃-✻ — “to burn”
  2. derived from carbō — “charcoal, coal”
  3. borrowed from carbone
  4. suffixed as carbonæmia — “carbon + aemia”

Definitions

  1. An excessive amount of carbon, particularity carbon dioxide, in the blood.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for carbonæmia. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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