Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A condition in which the blood contains irregular-shaped particles of brown or black pigment, either swimming free in the plasma, or enveloped in leucocytes. Melanæmia is most frequently the result of severe forms of remittent or intermittent fever.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.
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- noun medicine A
morbid condition in which theblood containsblack pigment , either floating freely or embedded in thewhite blood cells .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek black + blood.
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Examples
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I had the opportunity of making necropsies on patients dead from malignant fever and of studying the melanaemia, i.e. the formation of black pigment in the blood of patients affected by malaria.
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This melanaemia had been described by many observers, but people were still in doubt about the constancy of the alteration in malaria, and about the causes of the production of this pigment.
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