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anemia

[uh-nee-mee-uh] / əˈni mi ə /


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People with the disease can develop severe anemia, experience frequent infections, and need repeated blood transfusions.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

In 2026, researchers reported a 75-year-old man with severe anemia and an anti-AnWj autoantibody.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Add to which, the economy suffers an anemia Berlin is struggling to cure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

On Friday, the Ojai Raptor Center where Jackie is being cared for announced her blood values had fallen again, indicating her anemia had worsened.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

From what I’d heard, anemia was not so terrible either.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

Various disease processes also can lead to anemias.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Vitamin-deficient anemias generally involve insufficient vitamin B12 and folate.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

The effects of the various anemias are widespread, because reduced numbers of RBCs or hemoglobin will result in lower levels of oxygen being delivered to body tissues.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

And here too, athletes are eagerly dogging the footsteps of medical researchers, specifically those working to treat chronic anemias, conditions in which red blood cells dwindle to dangerously low levels, starving tissues of oxygen.

From Time Magazine Archive

This specialist now has a large number of detailed case histories based on every patient he has seen with leukemias, aplastic anemias, Hodgkin’s disease, and other disorders of the blood and blood-forming tissues.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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