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
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.