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polycythaemia (medicine)


polycythaemia
<haematology> Increase in the haemoglobin content of the blood, either because of a reduction in plasma volume or an increase in red cell numbers. The latter may be a result of abnormal proliferation of red cell precursors (polycythaemia vera, Vaquez Osler disease).

Origin: Gr. Haima = blood


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sophist noun. LME.
[Latin sophista, -tes from Greek sophistes, from sophizesthai: see SOPHISM, -IST.]
In ancient Greece, a scholar, a teacher; spec. a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric, esp. one associated with specious reasoning and moral scepticism; gen. (now rare) a wise or learned person. Now, a person using clever but fallacious arguments; a specious reasoner, a casuist.