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greensick /ˈɡriːnsɪk /adjective archaic(Of a person) affected with chlorosis.Moved to adoration by scatterbrained, widowed Lavinia Brandon's charm were the vicar, his greensick pupil and his middle-aged churchwarden. Derivatives greensickness /ˈɡriːnsɪknəs / noun ...- Gerard recommended watercress as a remedy for that now forgotten disease, ‘greensickness of maidens’.
- In ‘Old Mortality,’ it is Sophia Jane, the grandmother, who suffers from greensickness as a girl.
- Irregularity of menstruation and certain other uterine troubles, the peculiar condition called greensickness or chlorosis, and general debility may lead to some skin lesions.
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