pernicious anaemia

British  

noun

1. a form of anaemia characterized by lesions of the spinal cord, weakness, sore tongue, numbness in the arms and legs, diarrhoea, etc: associated with inadequate absorption of vitamin B 12

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Example Sentences

The new locale suited him, but then he was diagnosed with pernicious anaemia, a condition in which the immune system attacks healthy cells.

From The Guardian

A question for the government: as unemployment rises and all Europe stagnates or deflates from the same pernicious anaemia, when will it judge that leeches aren't working, and change to modern medicine?

From The Guardian

Other less common causes of ascites are chronic peritonitis, either tuberculous in the young, or due to cancer in the aged, and more rarely still pernicious anaemia.

From Project Gutenberg

It is the routine treatment for pernicious anaemia and Hodgkin’s disease, though here again the drug may be of no avail.

From Project Gutenberg

After death the amount of blood sometimes seems to be increased, and sometimes, as in “pernicious anaemia,” it is certainly diminished.

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