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FAVISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Anemia resulting from eating fava beans; victims have an inherited blood abnormality and enzyme deficiency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("favism" is a kind of...):
anaemia; anemia (a deficiency of red blood cells)