sidero-, sider- (iron)

An abnormal lack of a mineral reserve that is essential for proteins that stimulate chemical reactions and for the formation of red blood cells of the body: The patient's anemia, or decreased amount of red corpuscles in the blood, was caused by asiderosis and she needed to eat foods rich in iron to overcome her condition.

A basic hydrous iron sulphate occurring in yellow masses and crusts.

An intense fascination with railroad travel.

An irrational dread of railroads or of traveling on trains: Since Andrew has siderodromophobia he either goes by plane, bus, or car when he has job appointments in different parts of the country.

1. Fibrosis associated with deposits of iron.
2. Fibrosis associated with small foci (origin or center of a disseminated disease) in which iron is deposited.

An engraving on steel.

1. The art, or technique, of engraving on steel.
2. A method of increasing the number of reproductions obtained from a steel engraving by first rolling a soft-steel cylinder over a hardened steel plate and then rolling the hardened cylinder over a soft-steel plate.