PERNICIOUS ANEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pernicious anemia mean? 

• PERNICIOUS ANEMIA (noun)
  The noun PERNICIOUS ANEMIA has 1 sense:

1. a chronic progressive anemia of older adults; thought to result from a lack of intrinsic factor (a substance secreted by the stomach that is responsible for the absorption of vitamin B12)

  Familiarity information: PERNICIOUS ANEMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERNICIOUS ANEMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chronic progressive anemia of older adults; thought to result from a lack of intrinsic factor (a substance secreted by the stomach that is responsible for the absorption of vitamin B12)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

malignant anaemia; malignant anemia; pernicious anaemia; pernicious anemia

Hypernyms ("pernicious anemia" is a kind of...):

anaemia; anemia (a deficiency of red blood cells)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pernicious anemia"):

megaloblastic anaemia; megaloblastic anemia (anemia characterized by many large immature and dysfunctional red blood cells (megaloblasts) in the bone marrow; associated with pernicious anemia)

metaplastic anaemia; metaplastic anemia (pernicious anemia in which the various formed elements in the blood are changed)

 Context examples 

Vitamin B12 deficiency causes pernicious anemia, megaloblastic anemia, and neurologic lesions.

(Cyanocobalamin, NCI Thesaurus)