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greensickness

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green·sick·ness  (grnskns)
n.
See chlorosis.
greensick adj.
greensickness [ˈgriːnˌsɪknɪs]
n
(Medicine / Pathology) another name for chlorosis
greensick  adj
greensickness
chlorosis.
See also: Complexion
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Noun1.greensickness - iron deficiency anemia in young womengreensickness - iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin
chlorosis
iron deficiency anaemia, iron deficiency anemia - a form of anemia due to lack of iron in the diet or to iron loss as a result of chronic bleeding
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Similarly, medical commonplace books included many comments in the margin about remedies for greensickness and mother-fits, thereby showing retained menses to be a popular female concern.
Attitudes towards menstruation and menstrual blood in Elizabethan ... by Hindson, Bethan / Journal of Social History
Other poems in the book, such as "The Good Wife Taught her Daughter," "A Sovereign Medicine for Greensickness," and "My Sister's Way to Make Mead," also use seventeenth-century diction.
THE CURRACH REQUIRES NO HARBOURS by Clark, Heather / Harvard Review
In a fascinating discussion of greensickness or "the virgin's disease," Paster shows that the demand that fathers release their daughters to future husbands, paired with the demand that young women release themselves from an assumed natural reluctance to be courted, resulted in a kind of psychosocial disease that afflicted young women.
Humoring the Body: Emotions and the Shakespearean Stage by Hammill, Graham / Shakespeare Studies
 
 
 
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