THALASSAEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thalassaemia mean? 

• THALASSAEMIA (noun)
  The noun THALASSAEMIA has 1 sense:

1. an inherited form of anemia caused by faulty synthesis of hemoglobin

  Familiarity information: THALASSAEMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THALASSAEMIA (noun)

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 ("thalassaemia" 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 "thalassaemia"):

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)