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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
anaemia
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 anaemia predisposes to development of gastric adenocarcinoma.
▪ These patients were characterised by an early onset and long duration of pernicious anaemia.
▪ The need for gastroscopic follow up of pernicious anaemia patients is therefore still debated.
▪ More recent findings indicate that hypergastrinaemia associated with pernicious anaemia leads to hyperplasia of fundic endocrine cells.
▪ In association with endocrine cell hyperplasia, gastric carcinoid tumours have been observed in 1-7% of pernicious anaemia patients screened by gastroscopy.
▪ In this study we evaluated the findings of follow up gastroscopies performed three years after primary gastroscopic screening of pernicious anaemia patients.
▪ These patients had been treated earlier for pernicious anaemia in the same hospital between 1972 and 1985.
■ NOUN
cell
▪ A clear example of a mutation altering development is the inherited genetic defect, sickle cell anaemia.
▪ Chronic and acute problems associated with sickle cell anaemia.
▪ People with sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia are known to have red cells with defects in their outer membranes.
deficiency
▪ Iron deficiency anaemia - how far to investigate?
▪ Crohn's disease is often associated with iron deficiency anaemia.
▪ Iron deficiency anaemia is commonly caused by chronic blood loss from the gastrointestinal tract.
▪ Ten patients had died all unrelated to the iron deficiency anaemia.
▪ Therefore sigmoidoscopy should be mandatory as part of the investigation of patients with iron deficiency anaemia.
▪ The need for sigmoidoscopy in patients with obscure iron deficiency anaemia is contentious.
▪ This survey also allowed us to analyse the usefulness of investigations in iron deficiency anaemia in outpatients.
▪ The need to investigate the colon in outpatients referred with iron deficiency anaemia has not previously been assessed.
patient
▪ The need for gastroscopic follow up of pernicious anaemia patients is therefore still debated.
▪ In association with endocrine cell hyperplasia, gastric carcinoid tumours have been observed in 1-7% of pernicious anaemia patients screened by gastroscopy.
▪ In this study we evaluated the findings of follow up gastroscopies performed three years after primary gastroscopic screening of pernicious anaemia patients.
▪ Regular gastroscopy, if this could be achieved, would benefit pernicious anaemia patients.
▪ However, most authors agree that it is impractical and expensive to follow up all pernicious anaemia patients.
■ VERB
find
▪ No other cause for anaemia was found and anaemia did not recur during follow up.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Horseradish was used for coughs and colds, wild strawberry for anaemia and nervousness and honeysuckle was the first example of aspirin.
▪ Our management included a measurement of haemoglobin concentration and the treatment of any identified anaemia.
▪ Ten patients had died all unrelated to the iron deficiency anaemia.
▪ The build-up of recessive genes increases the incidence of genetically determined diseases, such as sickle-cell anaemia in humans.
▪ The need for sigmoidoscopy in patients with obscure iron deficiency anaemia is contentious.
▪ The work, if confirmed, could eventually lead to clinical application in the treatment of aplastic anaemia and malignancy.
▪ Ulcerative colitis may present with anaemia when bowel symptoms are mild or ignored.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anaemia

Anaemia \A*n[ae]"mi*a\ ([.a]*n[=e]"m[i^]*[.a]), a. [NL., fr. Gr. 'anaimi`a; 'an priv. + a'i^ma blood.] (Med.) A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anaemia

1824, from French medical term (1761), Modern Latin, from Greek anaimia "lack of blood," from anaimos "bloodless," from an- "without" (see an- (1)) + haima "blood" (see -emia).

Wiktionary
anaemia

n. (context British spelling English) (alternative spelling of anemia English)

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WordNet
anaemia

  1. n. a lack of vitality [syn: anemia]

  2. a deficiency of red blood cells [syn: anemia]

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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.