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FAVISM

• FAVISM (noun)
The noun FAVISM has 1 sense:

1. anemia resulting from eating fava beans; victims have an inherited blood abnormality and enzyme deficiency

Familiarity information: FAVISM used as a noun is very rare.

• FAVISM (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

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