Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See hydremia, hydremic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) An abnormally watery state of the blood; anæmia.

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  • noun thinness of the blood

Etymologies

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From hydro- with -aemia.

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Examples

  • For instance it was quite obvious that these statistics frequently included cases of palpitations of the heart, oedema of the feet, as well as a new cause of death described as "hydraemia perniciosa tropica" - conditions which should obviously have been ascribed to beriberi.

    Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture 1965

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