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anaemia
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES pernicious anaemia sickle-cell anaemia COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE pernicious ▪ Similar findings were also reported by Sjöblom etal studying patients with pernicious anaemia . ▪ It has long been known that pernicious ...
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n. a lack of vitality [syn: anemia ] a deficiency of red blood cells [syn: anemia ]
Usage examples of anaemia.
Just as with agranulocytosis there were many causes of haemolytic anaemia.
Thus, there being a fixed standard in a normal proportion of the elements of the blood, any deviation from it, as in anaemia, leucocythaemia, etc.
Anaemia may arise in consequence of low diet, or because the alimentary organs do not properly digest the food, or when there is not sufficient variety in the diet.
The diagnostic symptoms of anaemia are pallor of the face, lips, tongue, and general surface, weakness of the vital organs, hurried respiration on slight exercise, swelling or puffiness of the eyes, and a murmur of the heart, resembling the sound of a bellows.
It is also indicated where there is a lack of red blood corpuscles, as in anaemia.
She paused now by a group and listened to Miss Thompson, a pernicious anaemia who ruled the new patients with a rod of iron since she had been in and out of the ward for years now, describing the operation her sister-in-law had just had.
You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take vitamin B12.
There was nothing much the matter with her, except that she had one of those little feminine ailments from which pretty women frequently suffer--slight anaemia, a nervous attack, etc.
The inscription on her grave states that she died of anaemia, and morality is satisfied.
Charley was listlessly struggling that losing struggle against mental, moral, and physical anaemia that takes place ceaselessly on the lower fringe of the middle classes.
There'll be a contraction of the bladder, bone fractures that won't mend, inflammation of the kidneys, liver, spinal cord and heart, bronchopneumonia, thrombosis, cancer and aplastic anaemia which will lead to subcutaneous haemorrhaging - in other words you'll bleed to death under the skin.
It can be employed as a substitute for cod-liver oil in scrofula, rickets, anaemia, debility following infectious diseases.
Apart from the daily Melphalan tablet, he had been prescribed a whole battery of drugs in an attempt to combat the cancer's pernicious side-effects: anaemia, the strain on the heart, and so on.
Deficiency symptoms: pernicious anaemia, irritability and states of nervous collapse.
Even if some Romanian doctor had got there before we torched the place, it would have seemed 'obvious' that the children had been suffering from some form of pernicious anaemia.