hypoglobulia

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Etymology[edit]

hypo- +‎ globule +‎ -ia

Noun[edit]

hypoglobulia (uncountable)

  1. The presence of an abnormally low count of red blood cells in the blood.
    • 1884, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, page 541:
      Second : The degree of hypoglobulia and scarcity of haemoglobin varies between very wide limits. Third : These conditions occur more frequently, and to a greater degree, among females than males. Fourth : These conditions are much less []
    • 1898, Frederic Bateman, On Aphasia, Or Loss of Speech: And the Localisation of the Faculty of Articulate Language, page 400:
      Seppilli says that in the early stages of insanity, there is frequently noticed a scarcity of the red blood globules as well as of haemoglobin ; also that the degree of hypoglobulia and scarcity of haemoglobin vary between very wide limits.
    • 1927, Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine:
      Hypoglobulia and compensating hyperplasmia were found. Blood and plasma volume was augmented in diseases of the liver, but the increase was not parallel with the gravity of the disease. In diseases of the kidneys, the total blood volume []

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