ANEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Anemia mean? 

• ANEMIA (noun)
  The noun ANEMIA has 3 senses:

1. a deficiency of red blood cells

2. a lack of vitality

3. genus of terrestrial or lithophytic ferns having pinnatifid fronds; chiefly of tropical America

  Familiarity information: ANEMIA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANEMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deficiency of red blood cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

anaemia; anemia

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

blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)

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

aplastic anaemia; aplastic anemia (anemia characterized by pancytopenia resulting from failure of the bone marrow; can be caused by neoplasm or by toxic exposure)

erythroblastosis fetalis (severe anemia in newborn babies; the result of Rh incompatibility between maternal and fetal blood; typically occurs when the child of an Rh-negative mother inherits Rh-positive blood from the father; can be diagnosed before birth by amniocentesis)

congenital pancytopenia; Fanconi's anaemia; Fanconi's anemia (a rare congenital anemia characterized by pancytopenia and hypoplasia of the bone marrow)

favism (anemia resulting from eating fava beans; victims have an inherited blood abnormality and enzyme deficiency)

haemolytic anaemia; hemolytic anemia (anemia resulting from destruction of erythrocytes)

hyperchromic anaemia; hyperchromic anemia (anemia characterized by an increase in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin)

hypochromic anaemia; hypochromic anemia (anemia characterized by a decrease in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin)

hypoplastic anaemia; hypoplastic anemia (anemia resulting from inadequately functioning bone marrow; can develop into aplastic anemia)

iron deficiency anaemia; iron deficiency anemia (a form of anemia due to lack of iron in the diet or to iron loss as a result of chronic bleeding)

ischaemia; ischemia (local anemia in a given body part sometimes resulting from vasoconstriction or thrombosis or embolism)

macrocytic anaemia; macrocytic anemia (anemia in which the average size of erythrocytes is larger than normal)

microcytic anaemia; microcytic anemia (anemia in which the average size of erythrocytes is smaller than normal)

malignant anaemia; malignant anemia; pernicious anaemia; pernicious anemia (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))

refractory anaemia; refractory anemia (any of various anemic conditions that are not successfully treated by any means other than blood transfusions (and that are not associated with another primary disease))

crescent-cell anaemia; crescent-cell anemia; drepanocytic anaemia; drepanocytic anemia; sickle-cell anaemia; sickle-cell anemia; sickle-cell disease (a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape)

Derivation:

anemic (relating to anemia or suffering from anemia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A lack of vitality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

anaemia; anemia

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

symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)

Derivation:

anemic (lacking vigor or energy)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Genus of terrestrial or lithophytic ferns having pinnatifid fronds; chiefly of tropical America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Anemia; genus Anemia

Hypernyms ("Anemia" is a kind of...):

fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)

Meronyms (members of "Anemia"):

Anemia adiantifolia; pine fern (fern of Florida and West Indies and Central America with rhizome densely clad in grown hairs)

Holonyms ("Anemia" is a member of...):

family Schizaeaceae; Schizaeaceae (small family of mainly tropical ferns)

 Context examples 

Anemia not associates with symptoms of fatigue, headaches, palpitations, or shortness of breath.

(Mild Anemia, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance being studied in the treatment of anemia in patients who are receiving chemotherapy.

(Methoxypolyethylene glycol epoetin beta, NCI Dictionary)

A substance that is being studied in the treatment of anemia in patients who are receiving chemotherapy.

(Methoxy Polyethylene Glycol-Epoetin beta, NCI Dictionary)

It is associated with the development of refractory anemia with excess blasts, refractory anemia with multilineage dysplasia, and refractory anemia with multilineage dysplasia and ringed sideroblasts.

(Monosomy 5, NCI Thesaurus)

Other signs and symptoms include anemia, thrombocytopenia, hepatomegaly, peripheral neuropathy and pleural effusions.

(Multicentric Angiofollicular Lymphoid Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

This syndrome affects myeloid (bone marrow) cells, causing treatment-resistant anemia, and myelodysplastic syndromes that may lead to acute myelogenous leukemia.

(Myelodysplastic Syndrome with Isolated del(5q), NCI Dictionary)

The peripheral blood shows macrocytic anemia.

(Myelodysplastic Syndrome with Isolated del(5q), NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Methoxypolyethylene glycol epoetin beta may reverse anemias induced by cancer therapy.

(Methoxy Polyethylene Glycol-Epoetin beta, NCI Thesaurus)

Anemias associated with impaired DNA synthesis in bone marrow progenitor cells leading to odd shaped, macrocytic, or dysfunctional erythrocytes; usually caused by B12 or folate deficiency.

(Megaloblastic Anemia, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)

Also called immune complex hemolytic anemia and immunohemolytic anemia.

(Autoimmune hemolytic anemia, NCI Dictionary)