xanthaemia

Noun

xanthemia (uncountable)

1. The occurrence of yellow matter in the blood.
   • Among the latter, incipient nephritis and metabolic anomalies, as xanthemia, arthritis uritica, oxaluria are common.1902, Heinrich Stern, “On the treatment of obesity”, in Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 38
2. The occurrence of yellow skin
   • False jaundice or carotenemia (xanthemia) is an unusual and abnormal yellowness of the human skin, sometimes actually appearing in the sweat, resulting from the ingestion of carotenoid-rich food such as carrots, oranges or yellow cucurbits in large quantities over protracted periods.1976, Denis Llewellyn Fox, Animal biochromes and structural colours: physical, chemical, distributional, page 174