Anemia Definition
ənēmēə
noun
A condition in which there is a reduction of the number, or volume, of red blood corpuscles or of the total amount of hemoglobin in the bloodstream, resulting in paleness, generalized weakness, etc.
Webster's New World
Lack of vigor or vitality; lifelessness.
Webster's New World
A pathological deficiency in the oxygen-carrying component of the blood, measured in unit volume concentrations of hemoglobin, red blood cell volume, or red blood cell number.
American Heritage Medicine
(countable, pathology) A disease or condition that has anemia as a symptom.
Pernicious anemia and sickle-cell anemia are two anemias.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Anemia
Noun
Singular:
anemia
Plural:
anemi, anemiae, anemiasOrigin of Anemia
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New Latin from Greek anaimiā an- without a–1 haima blood
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “not”) + αἷμα (haima, “blood”) + -ia.
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