萎い黄おう病びょう

noun

chlorosis; greensickness

Historical medical term for a form of anemia with a greenish pallor, primarily affecting young women. Now largely obsolete in modern medicine.

• 19世せい紀きの医い学がく書しょには萎い黄おう病びょうの記き述じゅつがよく見みられる。

  Descriptions of chlorosis are often found in 19th-century medical texts.