Relating to or affected by cachaemia; having bad blood quality or being in a state of blood contamination, according to older medical theories.
Adjectival form derived from 'cachaemia,' combining Greek 'kakos' (bad) and 'haima' (blood) with the medical suffix '-ic.' Used in older medical literature to describe conditions involving poor blood.
Words like 'cachaemic' remind us that medical terminology is a museum of abandoned theories—these words preserve how doctors once understood disease, even though the theories were completely wrong.
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