THALASSAEMIA

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Meaning:

An inherited form of anemia caused by faulty synthesis of hemoglobin

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("thalassaemia" is a kind of...):

monogenic disease; monogenic disorder (an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes)

hypochromic anaemia; hypochromic anemia (anemia characterized by a decrease in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thalassaemia"):

Cooley's anaemia; Cooley's anemia; thalassaemia major; thalassemia major (a fatal form of homozygous thalassemia (inherited from both parents) in which there is no hemoglobin; skeletal deformations; heart and spleen and liver enlarged)