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MEDITERRANEAN ANEMIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Mediterranean anemia mean?
• MEDITERRANEAN ANEMIA (noun)
The noun MEDITERRANEAN ANEMIA has 1 sense:
1. an inherited form of anemia caused by faulty synthesis of hemoglobin
Familiarity information: MEDITERRANEAN ANEMIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An inherited form of anemia caused by faulty synthesis of hemoglobin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
Mediterranean anaemia; Mediterranean anemia; thalassaemia; thalassemia
Hypernyms ("Mediterranean anemia" is a kind of...):
monogenic disease; monogenic disorder (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)
hypochromic anaemia; hypochromic anemia (anemia characterized by a decrease in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Mediterranean anemia"):
Cooley's anaemia; Cooley's anemia; thalassaemia major; thalassemia major (a fatal form of homozygous thalassemia (inherited from both parents) in which there is no hemoglobin; skeletal deformations; heart and spleen and liver enlarged)
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