Thalassic

Thalassic is defined as "of or relating to the sea." Thalassemias are hematological conditions in which you don't produce adequate amounts of certain proteins that compose your hemoglobin (the stuff that carries oxygen around on your RBCs).

The name for this condition comes from the prevalence of this condition around the Mediterranean Sea, essentially: you live around a sea and your blood is messed up. However, another translation of Thalassemia would be something like.... "Blood full of the sea" or "Sea Blood" which sounds to me like the exact opposite of Land Lubber. I love it.

Unfortunately, there is a wide spectrum of how severe a thalassemia can be: from clinically silent to death in utero.