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MEDITERRANEAN ANAEMIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An inherited form of anemia caused by faulty synthesis of hemoglobin
Synonyms:
Mediterranean anaemia; Mediterranean anemia; thalassaemia; thalassemia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("Mediterranean anaemia" 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 anaemia"):
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)
