chlorosis
/klaw-roh-sis, kloh-/US // klɔˈroʊ sɪs, kloʊ- //UK // (klɔːˈrəʊsɪs) //
氯中毒,枯萎病,绿化病,萎缩
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n.名词 noun
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- : an abnormally yellow color of plant tissues, resulting from partial failure to develop chlorophyll, caused by a nutrient deficiency or the activities of a pathogen.
- : Also called greensickness. Pathology. a benign type of iron-deficiency anemia in adolescent girls, marked by a pale yellow-green complexion.
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When fourteen years old she had for some months suffered from chlorosis, but had never been troubled by any other serious illness.
It is sometimes also found to accompany the chlorosis or green sickness.
For instance, the green-sickness, chlorosis, is by no means exclusively a disease of girls.
This unnatural desire is also frequently seen in hysteria and chlorosis, and in several uterine diseases.
It is only moderately productive and for some years has been affected with chlorosis.
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