Look up: chlorosis

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   Chlorosis
   Discoloration of normally green plant parts caused by disease, lack of nutrients, or various air pollutants.
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   chlorosis
   The loss of chlorophyll from the tissues of a plant, resulting from microbial infection, viral infection, the action of certain phytotoxins, the lack of light, to magnesium or iron deficiency, etc. Chlorotic tissues commonly appear yellowish.
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   Chlorosis
   Yellowing or mottling of normally green tissue as a result of lack of chlorophyll, through its failure to develop, or destruction by chemical effects, disease etc.
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   chlorosis
   [n] - iron deficiency anemia in young women
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   Chlorosis
   The loss or poor production of chlorophyll in a plants leaves, resulting in them loosing their green colour
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   Chlorosis
   Anaemia. Usually simple iron deficiency but could also mean leukaemia or lymphoma
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   Chlorosis
   anaemia from iron deficiency
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   chlorosis
   physiological ailment of plants due to various causes and resulting in yellowing of the green parts of the plant. Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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   chlorosis
   Yellowing or bleaching of plant tissues due to the loss of chlorophyll or failure of chlorophyll synthesis. Symptomatic of many plant diseases, also of deficiencies of light or certain nutrients.
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    Chlorosis
    Chlo·ro'sis noun [ New Latin , from Greek chlwro`s light green: confer French chlorose .] 1. (Medicine) The green sickness; an anæmic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc. 2. (Botany) A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their norm ...
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    chlorosis
    Yellowing or bleaching of plant tissues due to the loss of chlorophyll or failure of chlorophyll synthesis. Symptomatic of many plant diseases, also of deficiencies of light or certain nutrients. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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    chlorosis
    greensickness noun iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin
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    Chlorosis
    : In botany, `chlorosis` is a condition in which leaves produce insufficient chlorophyll. As chlorophyll is responsible for the green colour of leaves, chlorotic leaves are pale, yellow, or yellow-white. The affected plant has little or no ability to manufacture carbohydrates through photosynthesis and may die unless the cause of its chlorophyll insufficiency is treated; some chlorotic plants, such as the albino `Arabidopsis thaliana` mutant `p...
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    Chlorosis
    • (n.) The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc. • (n.) A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.
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    chlorosis
    (from the article `blood disease`) ...but not jaundiced. The deficiency of iron-containing enzymes in the tissues, if sufficiently great, results in a smooth tongue; brittle, flattened ...
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    chlorosis
    symptom of plant disease in which normally green tissue is pale, yellow, or bleached. It results from failure of chlorophyll to develop because of ... [1 related articles]
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    chlorosis
    Rarely used term for a form of chronic hypochromic microcytic (iron deficiency) anemia, characterized by a great reduction in hemoglobin out of proportion to the decreased number of red blood cells; observed chiefly in females from puberty to the third decade and usually associated with diets deficient in iron and protein. Syn: chloremia 1, green s...
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    Chlorosis
    A symptom of disease or disorder in plants in which a plant or part of a plant is light green or greenish-yellow because of poor chlorophyll development.
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