(British spelling) Alternative spelling of anemia

plural of anaemia

Alternative spelling of pernicious anemia

plural of pernicious anaemia

(pathology, Britain) A severe hereditary form of anaemia, mainly affecting people of African origin, in which mutated haemoglobin distorts red blood cells into a crescent shape, causing the cells to become stuck in capillaries. Downstream tissues are thus deprived of oxygen causing ischaemia and infarction.

(Britain) A disease characterized by sickle-shaped red blood cells.

(medicine) One of the myelodysplastic syndromes, namely having between 5-20% myeloblasts in the bone marrow; by the WHO further subdivided in RAEB-1 and RAEB-2, with 5-9% and 10-19% blasts, respectively.

Rare spelling of anemial.