Phrase Hound found 9 phrases and 7 compound words that contain anemia. The most common are listed below. Open anemia in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 9
- sickle-cell anemiaThe most common form of sickle-cell disease, with anemic effects.
- pernicious anemiaA severe form of anemia caused by vitamin B₁₂ insufficiency.
- aplastic anemiaA rare disease in which the bone marrow and the hematopoietic stem cells that reside there are damaged, causing pancytopenia.
- Mediterranean anemiaSynonym of thalassemia: Any of a group of inherited disorders in which the amount of hemoglobin in the blood is reduced.
- Fanconi anemiaA rare genetic disease typically leading to acute myelogenous leukemia, and often accompanied by congenital defects such as short stature, abnormalities of the skin, arms, head, eyes, kidneys, and ears, and developmental disabilities.
- Addison's anemiaSynonym of pernicious anemia: A severe form of anemia caused by vitamin B₁₂ insufficiency.
- Biermer's anemiaSynonym of pernicious anemia: A severe form of anemia caused by vitamin B₁₂ insufficiency.
- Diamond-Blackfan anemiaA congenital erythroid aplasia that usually presents in infancy.
- miner's anemiaAlternative spelling of miner's anaemia: Synonym of hookworm (“disease”).
Compound words 7
- anemizationThe process or result of anemizing.
- antianemiaCountering anemia.
- pseudoanemiaAny of various states that may be mistaken for anemia, which usually fall into the classes of (a) hemodilution that is physiologic rather than pathologic and (b) pallor of mucous membranes with nonanemic causes.
- anemialCharacteristic of anemias; anemic.
- anemiatedMade anemic.
- chloroanemiaAlternative form of chloroanaemia: An anaemia, due to deficiency of iron, characterized by a yellow-green coloration of the skin.
- melanemiaAlternative form of melanaemia: A morbid state in which the blood contains black pigment, either floating freely or embedded in the white blood cells; either a disease or a sign of one, ambiguously.