anemia

English

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• anaemia
• anæmia

Etymology

Ancient Greek ἀν- (“not”) + αἷμα (“blood”) + -ia.

Noun

anemia (countable and uncountable; plural anemias or anemiae or anemiæ)

1. (uncountable, pathology) 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. (countable, pathology) A disease or condition that has anemia as a symptom.

   Pernicious anemia and sickle-cell anemia are two anemias.

Derived terms

achlorhydric anemia acquired hemolytic anemia anemic aplastic anemia autoimmune hemolytic anemia

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

See also

• ischemia

Translations

medical condition with decreased oxygen transport

• Albanian: anemi (sq)
• Bulgarian: анемия (bg) (anemija), малокръвие (bg) (malokrǎvie)
• Catalan: anèmia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貧血 (cmn), 贫血 (cmn) (pínxuè)

• Czech: chudokrevnost (cs) f
• Dutch: anemie (nl) f, bloedarmoede (nl) f and m
• Finnish: anemia (fi), vähäverisyys (fi), heikkoverisyys (fi)
• French: anémie (fr) f
• German: Anämie (de) f, Blutarmut (de) f, Blutmangel (de) m
• Greek: αναιμία (el) (anaimía)
• Hungarian: vérszegénység (hu)

• Icelandic: blóðleysi (is) n, blóðskortur (is) m
• Japanese: 貧血 (ja) (ひんけつ, hinketsu), 貧血症 (ja) (ひんけつしょう, hinketsushō)
• Korean: 빈혈 (ko) (binhyeol) (貧血 (ko))
• Maltese: anemija (mt) f
• Polish: anemia (pl) f
• Russian: анемия (ru) (anemíja) f, малокровие (ru) (malokróvije) n
• Serbo-Croatian: anemija (sh) f
• Spanish: anemia (es) f
• Swedish: anemi (sv)
• Telugu: రక్తహీనత (raktaheenata)
• Turkish: kansızlık (tr), anemi (tr)

disease of condition with anemia as symptom

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貧血 (cmn), 贫血 (cmn) (pínxuè)

• Dutch: anemie (nl) f
• Finnish: anemia (fi)

Anagrams

• amaine, menaia

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Finnish

Noun

anemia

1. anemia

Declension

Declension of anemia (type kulkija) singular plural nominative anemia anemiat genitive anemian anemioiden anemioitten anemiain1 partitive anemiaa anemioita accusative anemia anemian anemiat inessive anemiassa anemioissa elative anemiasta anemioista illative anemiaan anemioihin adessive anemialla anemioilla ablative anemialta anemioilta allative anemialle anemioille essive anemiana anemioina translative anemiaksi anemioiksi instructive – anemioin abessive anemiatta anemioitta comitative – anemioineen 1) Rare.

Synonyms

• heikkoverisyys
• vähäverisyys

Derived terms

• aneeminen
• aneemisuus
• pernisiöösi anemia
• sirppisoluanemia

Anagrams

• aamein, aamien, meinaa

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Noun

anemia f (plural anemie)

1. (pathology) anemia

Derived terms

• anemico

Anagrams

• emanai

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Spanish

Noun

anemia f (plural anemias)

1. (pathology) anemia