anaemia
noun/əˈniːmiə/
/əˈniːmiə/
(British English) (North American English anemia)
[uncountable]- a medical condition in which somebody has too few red cells or too little haemoglobin in their blood, making them look pale and feel weakTopics Health problemsc2Word Originearly 19th cent.: via modern Latin from Greek anaimia, from an- ‘without’ + haima ‘blood’.
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