Meanings
- uncountablemedicineThe occurrence of yellow matter in the blood.
Among the latter, incipient nephritis and metabolic anomalies, as xanthemia, arthritis uritica, oxaluria are common.
1902, Heinrich Stern, “On the treatment of obesity”, in Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 381 more example
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.
1922, Leroy Sheldon Palmer, Carotinoids and related pigments: the chromolipoids, page 136 - uncountablemedicineThe occurrence of yellow skin
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.
1976, Denis Llewellyn Fox, Animal biochromes and structural colours: physical, chemical, distributional, page 174
Synonyms & antonyms
nounexcess carotene in the blood stream; can cause the skin to turn a pale yellow or red color
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Origin
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