anæmia Path.
(əˈniːmɪə)
[a. mod.L., a. Gr. ἀναιµία want of blood, f. Gr. ἀν priv. + αἷµα blood.]
Lack of blood; a condition of unhealthy paleness and feebleness, resulting either from diminution of the amount of blood in the body, or from a diminished proportion of red corpuscles in the blood. The 1807 example cited in the Stanford Dict. of Anglicized Words is not certainly the same word.
| [1761 J. Lieutaud Précis de la Médecine Pratique (1765) I. i. 81 L'Anemie. Cette maladie (anemia) qu'on peut regarder comme l'épuisement des vaisseaux sanguins.] 1824 Trans. Med. Chir. Soc. Edin. 202 A disease, under the title of Anæmia, has been described by Becker. 1836 Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. I. 416/2 The state of anæmia, or a deficiency in the quantity of circulating blood. 1854 Badham Halieut. 215 In a state of acute suffering from exhaustion and anæmia. 1876 Holland Seven Oaks ii. 32 Anemia is the normal condition of the pauper. |