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

(uncountable, pathology) A medical condition in which the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen to the tissues is reduced, either because of too few red blood cells, or because of too little hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and fatigue.

Wiktionary
(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, anemias

Origin of Anemia

  • 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.

    From Wiktionary

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