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chlorosis

noun as in anemia

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This would be very useful in the case of bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, which causes a range of diseases in different plant species, like Pierce's disease of grapevines, citrus variegated chlorosis, and olive quick decline syndrome.

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We inspected it several times a day, vigilant for signs of under- or overwatering, too much or too little sun, spider mites, drafts, chlorosis, general malaise.

Desire for strange articles of food, as slate-pencils, ashes, etc., is met with in some instances of chlorosis and of hysteria.

Deteriorated conditions of the blood, anaemia, chlorosis—such as occurs so commonly in young women—is prone to make the outlook in pneumonia more serious.

She becomes a complex of disabilities, indeed; disabilities which in delicate, sickly or over-taxed girls, show in chlorosis, anæmia, hysteria and other ills.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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