anemia
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GC: n

S: http://jn.nutrition.org/content/129/9/1669.full (last access: 28 December 2015); DORLAND p. 78.

N: 1. alternative (chiefly U.S.) spelling of anaemia (q.v.). See ae. As a genus of plants, Modern Latin, from Greek aneimon “unclad,” from privative prefix an- + eima “a dress, garment”.
2. anemia, disease also spelled anaemia condition in which the red blood cells (erythrocytes) are reduced in number or volume or are deficient in hemoglobin, their oxygen-carrying pigment.
3. A reduction below normal in the concentration of erythrocytes or hemoglobin in the blood, measured per mm3 or by volume of packed red cells per 100 mL of blood; it occurs when the equilibrium is disturbed between blood loss (through bleeding or destruction) and blood production.

S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=anemia&searchmode=none (last access: 2 September 2014). 2. EncBrit – http://www.britannica.com/science/anemia (last access: 2 September 2014). 3. DORLAND p. 78.

GV: anaemia (UK)

S: EncBrit – http://www.britannica.com/science/anemia (last access: 2 September 2014); GDT (last access: 2 September 2014); TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 2 September 2014); WHO – http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/43894/1/9789241596657_eng.pdf (last access: 28 December 2015).

CR: erythrocytopenia, hemoglobin, orthorexia, tachycardia.