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Pernicious anemia   /pərnˈɪʃəs ənˈimiə/   Listen
Pernicious anemia

noun
1.
A chronic progressive anemia of older adults; thought to result from a lack of intrinsic factor (a substance secreted by the stomach that is responsible for the absorption of vitamin B12).  Synonyms: malignant anaemia, malignant anemia, pernicious anaemia.






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"Pernicious anemia" Quotes from Famous Books



... shortly be a rarity; typhoid fever and cholera have been eradicated wherever there is sanitation; erysipelas can be controlled; hydrophobia prevented; childbirth fever has lost its tremendous mortality; tetanus can be checked; syphilis and gonorrhea can be controlled; diabetes and pernicious anemia can be controlled; surgery is reclaiming vast multitudes and restoring to useful and happy lives thousands who would have hitherto died. So much has been done; but it is especially true that there is as ...
— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

... replied Chapelle, dubiously. "I know that Mrs. Blakeley has been paying money to the old woman, who seems to be ill. Once I managed to get in to see her. It's a bad case of pernicious anemia, I should say. A neighbor told me she had been to the college hospital, had been one of Doctor Haynes's cases, but that he had turned her over to his son. I've seen Hampton ...
— The Treasure-Train • Arthur B. Reeve



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