Associations to the word «Favism»
Adjective
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Wiktionary
FAVISM, noun. (medicine) Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency: an X-linked recessive genetic condition that predisposes a person to hemolysis and resultant jaundice in response to certain triggers.
Dictionary definition
FAVISM, noun. Anemia resulting from eating fava beans; victims have an inherited blood abnormality and enzyme deficiency.
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.