iron overload

1. 1.

   pathology in which iron accumulates in the tissues; characterized by bronzed skin and enlarged liver and diabetes mellitus and abnormalities of the pancreas and the joints

   Synonymshemochromatosisiron-storage diseasebronzed diabetes

   Broaderpathology

   Narrowerclassic hemochromatosisacquired hemochromatosis

Questions about iron overload

What does iron overload mean?

iron overload means "pathology in which iron accumulates in the tissues; characterized by bronzed skin and enlarged liver and diabetes mellitus and abnormalities of the pancreas and the joints".

What is another word for iron overload?

Close synonyms include hemochromatosis, iron-storage disease, bronzed diabetes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is iron overload a common word?

iron overload is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.