Haematocrya

/ˌhiːmətəʊˈkraɪə/ noun

Definition

A condition involving abnormal temperature sensitivity or thermal properties of blood.

Etymology

From Greek haema (blood) + krya (cold/frost). An extremely rare medical term, possibly archaic or obsolete.

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This is the kind of word that appears in 150-year-old medical dictionaries but hardly anywhere else, representing diseases or conditions that doctors described once and then never again as medicine evolved.

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