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haemochromatosis

haemochromatosis is the alternative spelling of hemochromatosis.

Meaning of hemochromatosis

Noun

hemochromatosis (countable and uncountable, plural hemochromatoses)

  1. A metabolic disorder causing iron deposits in the body.
    • Sometimes, it’s not the potential for big profits that restricts access to a gene test, but just the opposite-lack of commercial incentive. In 1996, a Stanford University research team found the gene for hemochromatosis, a little-known disease in which the blood absorbs abnormally high levels of...2001, Arthur Allen, “Who Owns My Disease?”, in Mother Jones

Forms of haemochromatosis

pluralhaemochromatoses

Origin of haemochromatosis

From haemo- + chromato- + -osis.

Questions about haemochromatosis

What is haemochromatosis the alternative spelling of?
Haemochromatosis is the alternative spelling of hemochromatosis.

Words near haemochromatosis in the dictionary

  1. haemoblast
  2. haemoblasts
  3. haemocapillary
  4. haemochorial
  5. haemochromatoses
  6. haemochromatosis
  7. haemochrome
  8. haemochromometer
  9. haemochromometers
  10. haemoclip
  11. haemocoagulase

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haemochromatosis (page history and authors); hemochromatosis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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