anemia

Any condition in which the number of red blood cells per cu mm, the amount of hemoglobin in 100 ml of blood, and the volume of packed red blood cells per 100 ml of blood are less than normal; clinically, generally pertaining to the concentration of oxygen-transporting material in a designated volume of blood, in contrast to total quantities as in oligocythemia, oligochromemia, and oligemia. Anemia is frequently manifested by pallor of the skin and mucous membranes, shortness of breath, palpitations of the heart, soft systolic murmurs, lethargy, and fatigability.

Origin

[G. anaimia, fr. an- priv. + haima, blood]

achlorhydric anemia

achrestic anemia

acquired hemolytic anemia

addisonian anemia

Addison’s anemia

angiopathic hemolytic anemia

aplastic anemia

asiderotic anemia

autoimmune hemolytic anemia

Bartonella anemia

Belgian Congo anemia

Biermer’s anemia

brickmaker’s anemia

cameloid anemia

chlorotic anemia

congenital anemia

congenital aplastic anemia

congenital dyserythropoietic anemia

congenital hemolytic anemia

congenital hypoplastic anemia

congenital nonregenerative anemia

Cooley’s anemia

cow milk anemia

crescent cell anemia

deficiency anemia

Diamond-Blackfan anemia

dilution anemia

dimorphic anemia

diphyllobothrium anemia

drepanocytic anemia

dyshemopoietic anemia

Ehrlich’s anemia

elliptocytary anemia

elliptocytic anemia

elliptocytotic anemia

equine infectious anemia

erythroblastic anemia

erythronormoblastic anemia

essential anemia

Faber’s anemia

false anemia

familial erythroblastic anemia

familial hypoplastic anemia

familial microcytic anemia

familial pyridoxine-responsive anemia

familial splenic anemia

Fanconi’s anemia

feline infectious anemia

fish tapeworm anemia

folic acid deficiency anemia

globe cell anemia

goat’s milk anemia

anemia gravis

ground itch anemia

Heinz body anemia

hemolytic anemia

hemolytic anemia of newborn

hemorrhagic anemia

hookworm anemia

hyperchromic anemia

hypochromic anemia

hypochromic microcytic anemia

hypoferric anemia

hypoplastic anemia

icterohemolytic anemia

infectious anemia

intertropical anemia

iron deficiency anemia

isochromic anemia

lead anemia

Lederer’s anemia

leukoerythroblastic anemia

local anemia

macrocytic anemia

macrocytic achylic anemia

macrocytic anemia of pregnancy

macrocytic anemia tropical

malignant anemia

Marchiafava-Micheli anemia

megaloblastic anemia

megalocytic anemia

metaplastic anemia

microangiopathic hemolytic anemia

microcytic anemia

microdrepanocytic anemia

milk anemia

mountain anemia

myelophthisic anemia

neonatal anemia

anemia neonatorum

normochromic anemia

normocytic anemia

nutritional anemia

nutritional macrocytic anemia

osteosclerotic anemia

ovalocytic anemia

pernicious anemia

physiologic anemia

polar anemia

posthemorrhagic anemia

primary erythroblastic anemia

primary refractory anemia

pure red cell anemia

radiation anemia

refractory anemia

scorbutic anemia

secondary refractory anemia

sickle cell anemia

sideroblastic anemia

slaty anemia

spastic anemia

spherocytic anemia

splenic anemia

target cell anemia

toxic anemia

traumatic anemia

tropical anemia

unstable hemoglobin hemolytic anemia