Anemia

Alternative forms

 * anaemia
 * anæmia

Noun

 * 1)   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.
 * 2)   A disease or condition that has anemia as a symptom.

Derived terms

 * achlorhydric anemia
 * acquired hemolytic anemia
 * anemic
 * aplastic anemia
 * autoimmune hemolytic anemia


 * hemolytic anemia
 * hyperchromic anemia
 * hypochromic anemia
 * pernicious anemia
 * sickle-cell anemia

Thesaurus
Christmas disease; Hand-Schuller-Christian disease; Letterer-Siwe syndrome; Lombardy leprosy; abscess; acute leukemia; adynamia; ague; angiohemophilia; ankylosis; anoxia; aplastic anemia; apnea; ariboflavinosis; ashiness; asphyxiation; asthma; ataxia; atony; atrophy; backache; beriberi; blah feeling; bleeding; blennorhea; bloodlessness; cachexia; cachexy; cadaverousness; chill; chills; chloranemia; chlorosis; chronic leukemia; colic; constipation; convulsion; coughing; cowardice; cyanosis; cyclic neutropenia; deathly hue; deathly pallor; debilitation; debility; deficiency anemia; dermatitis; diarrhea; dimness; dizziness; dropsy; dullness; dysentery; dyspepsia; dyspnea; edema; emaciation; erythrocytosis; etiolation; exsanguination; fadedness; fainting; faintness; fairness; fatigue; feebleness; fever; fibrillation; flabbiness; flaccidity; flux; ghastliness; goiter; greensickness; growth; haggardness; hemoglobinopathy; hemophilia; hemophilia A; hemophilia B; hemorrhage; high blood pressure; hydrops; hypertension; hypochromia; hypochromic anemia; hypotension; icterus; impotence; indigestion; infectious granuloma; inflammation; insomnia; iron deficiency anemia; itching; jaundice; keratomalacia; kwashiorkor; labored breathing; languishment; languor; lassitude; leukemia; leukemic reticuloendotheliosis; lightness; listlessness; lividness; low blood pressure; lumbago; macrocytic anemia; maidism; malnutrition; marasmus; muddiness; multiple myeloma; myelogenous leukemia; nasal discharge; nausea; necrosis; neutropenia; night blindness; osteomalacia; osteoporosis; pain; paleness; pallidity; pallidness; pallor; paralysis; pastiness; pellagra; pernicious anemia; plasma cell leukemia; plasmacytoma; polycythemia; prison pallor; prostration; protein deficiency; pruritus; pseudoleukemia; purpura; purpura hemorrhagica; rachitis; rash; rheum; rickets; sallowness; sclerosis; scurvy; seizure; shock; sickle-cell anemia; sickliness; sickly hue; skin eruption; sluggishness; sneezing; softness; sore; spasm; strengthlessness; struma; tabes; tachycardia; thalassemia; tumor; upset stomach; vascular hemophilia; vertigo; vitamin deficiency; vomiting; wanness; wasting; weakliness; weakness; weariness; xerophthalmia