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anemia

noun as in blood deficiency

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Economists believe high rates of iron-deficiency anemia also have a macroeconomic effect, reducing individual productivity by as much as 40% and reducing GDP by over 1%.

Inhibiting sickling would reduce cell lysis — where the cell’s outer membrane is broken — and improve anemia, possibly reducing episodes of pain.

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Three days after celebrating his 60th birthday this month, he was admitted to a clinic in La Plata with anemia and dehydration.

Maradona, who turned 60 on Friday, was initially hospitalized Monday with symptoms of anemia, dehydration and depression, per reports.

For example, CRISPR Therapeutics has ongoing clinical trials employing CRISPR-Cas9 to fix sickle cell anemia, as well as another blood condition known as beta thalassemia.

When I was a medical student in my native Oklahoma, I treated a young woman with a calm smile and severe anemia.

But no one could figure out the cause of her anemia until someone asked her more carefully about her diet.

Its relationship to anemia, however, is more complex than the cause-and-effect sequence I learned in medical school.

MDS is a relatively rare condition that can lead to a depletion of red or white blood cells, anemia, heavy bleeding.

The three anti-anemia drugs have cost the government a reported $60 billion since 1989.

It occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.

In pernicious anemia they are always greatly diminished, and an increase should exclude the diagnosis of this disease.

(b) In secondary anemia plaques are generally increased, although sometimes decreased.

Megaloblasts are found in pernicious anemia, and with extreme rarity in any other condition.

Pathologically, normoblasts occur in severe symptomatic anemia, leukemia, and pernicious anemia.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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