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Definition: Anaemia |
AnaemiaNoun1. A lack of vitality. 2. A deficiency of red blood cells. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "anaemia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | A reduction below normal in the number of erythrocytes per cu. mm., in the quantity of haemoglobin, or in the volume of packed red cells per 100 ml. of blood which occurs when the equilibrium between blood loss (through bleeding or destruction) and blood production is disturbed. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ANAEMIA | Dutch | Bloedarmoede | Medicine |
| ANEMIA | English | Anaemia | Medicine |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: AnaemiaSynonym: anemia (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Weakness | Anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Anaemia |
| English words defined with "anaemia": Hydraemia ♦ Poikilocyte. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "anaemia": avian erythroblastosis ♦ Babesia infection, babesiasis, babesiosis ♦ canine babesiosis, canine piroplasmosis ♦ drepanocyte ♦ equine babesiosis, equine biliary fever, equine piroplasmosis, erythroid leukosis ♦ iron deficiency ♦ malignant jaundice, methaemoglobinaemia ♦ nagana ♦ piroplasmosis, piroplasmosis of horses ♦ sickle-cell, surra, surrah ♦ Trypanosoma evansi infection, trypanosomiasis by Trypanosoma evansi. (references) |
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| "Anaemia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.43% of the time. "Anaemia" is used about 349 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.43% | 347 | 15,353 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 349 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "anaemia": aplastic anaemia ♦ brickmaker's anaemia ♦ Cooley's anaemia ♦ drepanocytic anaemia ♦ equine infectious anaemia ♦ Fanconi's anaemia ♦ haemolytic anaemia ♦ hyperchromic anaemia ♦ hypochromic anaemia ♦ hypoplastic anaemia ♦ infectious salmon anaemia ♦ iron deficiency anaemia ♦ macrocytic anaemia ♦ malignant anaemia ♦ mediterranean anaemia ♦ megaloblastic anaemia ♦ metaplastic anaemia ♦ microcytic anaemia ♦ miner's anaemia ♦ pernicious anaemia ♦ pernicious equine anaemia ♦ piglet anaemia ♦ refractory anaemia ♦ sideroblastic anaemia ♦ siderochrestic anaemia. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "anaemia": anti-anaemia. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
anaemia | 74 |
anaemia pernicious | 21 |
sickle cell anaemia | 20 |
anaemia aplastic | 6 |
anaemia cell photo sickle | 6 |
anaemia symptom | 5 |
iron deficiency anaemia | 4 |
anaemia haemolytic | 4 |
anaemia blackfan diamond | 3 |
anaemia salmo | 3 |
anaemia type | 2 |
anaemia blood disease | 2 |
anaemia hemolytic | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "anaemia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | anemie. (various references) | |
Albanian | anemi (anemia), dobësi (adynamia, anemia, debility, delicacy, disease, failing, feebleness, flabbiness, flaccidity, fragility, frailty, goneness, impotence, impotency, inanimation, inanition, inanity, infirmity, labefaction, languish, languor, laxness, leanness, limpness, malady, marasmus, reaction, sinking, tabescence, tenuity, vulnerability, washiness, weakness). (various references) | |
Arabic | فقران الدم (anemia), الأنيميا (anemia), أنيميا فقر الدم (anemia). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | малокръвие, анемия (anemia). (various references) | |
Chinese | 贫血症 (anemia). (various references) | |
Czech | anémie (anemia), chudokrevnost. (various references) | |
Danish | anæmi, anæmi. (various references) | |
Dutch | bloedarmoede (anaemic, anemia), anemie (anaemic, anemia). (various references) | |
Esperanto | anemio, sangomanko. (various references) | |
Farsi | کم خونی (Anemia). (various references) | |
Finnish | anemia (anemia, pernicious a). (various references) | |
French | anémie. (various references) | |
Frisian | bloedearmoed. (various references) | |
German | Blutarmut (anemia), Anämie (anemia), Bleichsucht (chlorosis). (various references) | |
Greek | αναιμία (anemia). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חוסר דם (anemia), אנמיה (anemia). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vérszegénység (anemia), anémia (anemia). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kurang darah (anemia, anemiac). (various references) | |
Italian | anemia (anemia). (various references) | |
Korean | 빈혈증 (anemia). (various references) | |
Manx | neufollaght, aneemaght. (various references) | |
Papiamen | anemia. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anaemiaay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anemia (anemia). (various references) | |
Romanian | anemie. (various references) | |
Russian | малокровие (anemia), анемия (anemia). (various references) | |
Spanish | anemia (anemia). (various references) | |
Swedish | anemi (anemia), blodbrist (anaemic, anemia). (various references) | |
Turkish | anemi (anemia), anemí, kansizlik, kansızlık (anemia, greensickness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | недокрів'я (anemia), анемія (anemia). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "anaemia": anaemias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "anaemia" (pronounced 'A*n[ae]"mi*a'): Adynamia, Alumina, Anomia, Anosmia, Aphemia, Artemia, Asemia, Bohemia, Cacostomia, Cadmia, Cryptogamia, Gerocomia, hyperaemia, kalmia, lamia, Leuchaemia, lipaemia, Lithaemia, Melanaemia, Monogamia, Nematelmia, Ophthalmia, Phanerogamia, Phenogamia, Phoronomia, Platyhelmia, Podophthalmia, Polygamia, Polythalamia, Septaemia, septicaemia, Spanaemia, toxaemia, uraemia, Vermiformia, Waldheimia, Xerophthalmia, Zamia. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: anemia. | |
-2 letters: amain, amine, amnia, anima, anime, mania, minae. | |
-3 letters: amen, amia, amie, amin, main, mana, mane, mean, mien, mina, mine, name, nema. | |
-4 letters: aim, ain, ama, ami, ana, ane, ani, mae, man, men, nae, nam, nim. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, ai, am, an, em, en, in, ma, me, mi, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-e-i-m-n" | |
+1 letter: anaemias. | |
+2 letters: catamenia. | |
+3 letters: adamancies, adamantine, amantadine, antianemia, aquamarine, catamenial, gametangia, managerial, naumachiae, paramnesia. | |
+4 letters: academician, amantadines, amaranthine, amphisbaena, analemmatic, aquamarines, egomaniacal, mandarinate, mandataries, manganesian, megalomania, paramnesias. | |
+5 letters: academicians, amphisbaenae, amphisbaenas, anathematize, antiacademic, armamentaria, balletomania, decalcomania, hemangiomata, maintainable, managerially, mandarinates, megalomaniac, megalomanias, paramagnetic, salamandrine, transaminase. | |
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