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anaemia

anaemia is the alternative spelling of anemia.

Meaning of anemia

Noun

anemia (countable and uncountable, plural anemias or anemiae or anemiæ)

  1. (US, uncountable) A medical condition in which the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen to the tissues is reduced, either because of too few red blood cells, or because of too little hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and fatigue.
  2. (countable) A disease or condition that has anemia as a symptom.
    • Pernicious anemia and sickle-cell anemia are two anemias.
  3. (obsolete) Ischemia.

Forms of anaemia

pluralanaemias

Words formed from anaemia

Phrases with anaemia

Questions about anaemia

What is anaemia the alternative spelling of?
Anaemia is the alternative spelling of anemia.

Words near anaemia in the dictionary

  1. anadromy
  2. Anadyr
  3. Anadyr fox
  4. Anadyr foxes
  5. Anael
  6. anaemia
  7. anaemial
  8. anaemias
  9. anaemiated
  10. anaemic
  11. anaemical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anaemia (page history and authors); anemia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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