1. anaemia(n = noun.state) anemia - a lack of vitality;
is a kind of symptom
Derived form adjective anaemic2
2. anaemia(n = noun.state) anemia - a deficiency of red blood cells;
is a kind of blood disease, blood disorder
has particulars: aplastic anaemia, aplastic anemia, erythroblastosis fetalis, congenital pancytopenia, fanconi's anaemia, fanconi's anemia, favism, haemolytic anaemia, hemolytic anemia, hyperchromic anaemia, hyperchromic anemia, hypochromic anaemia, hypochromic anemia, hypoplastic anaemia, hypoplastic anemia, iron deficiency anaemia, iron deficiency anemia, ischaemia, ischemia, macrocytic anaemia, macrocytic anemia, microcytic anaemia, microcytic anemia, malignant anaemia, malignant anemia, pernicious anaemia, pernicious anemia, refractory anaemia, refractory anemia, crescent-cell anaemia, crescent-cell anemia, drepanocytic anaemia, drepanocytic anemia, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell anemia, sickle-cell disease
Derived form adjective anaemic1
anaemia, n. (US anemia) a deficiency in the blood, usu. of red cells or their haemoglobin, resulting in pallor and weariness.
Idiom:
pernicious anaemia a defective formation of red blood cells through a lack of vitamin B12 or folic acid.
Etymology:
mod.L f. Gk anaimia (as AN-(1), -AEMIA)
N weakness, debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation, impotence, infirmity, effeminacy, feminality, fragility, flaccidity, inactivity, anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, softling, weakling, infant, youth, weak, feeble, debile, impotent, relaxed, unnerved sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic, nervous, soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly, frail, fragile, shattery, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread, rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky, craichy, drooping, tottering, broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, palsied, decrepit, languid, poor, infirm, faint, faintish, sickly, dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete, weather-beaten, decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless, defenseless, cantilevered (support), on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless, non sum qualis eram.
aplastic anaemia, cooley's anaemia, crescent-cell anaemia, drepanocytic anaemia, fanconi's anaemia, haemolytic anaemia, hyperchromic anaemia, hypochromic anaemia, hypoplastic anaemia, iron deficiency anaemia, macrocytic anaemia, malignant anaemia, mediterranean anaemia, megaloblastic anaemia, metaplastic anaemia, microcytic anaemia, pernicious anaemia, refractory anaemia, sickle-cell anaemia, sideroblastic anaemia, siderochrestic anaemia