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• anemia of chronic disease — anemia of chronic disorders mild to moderate anemia secondary to any of numerous chronic diseases lasting more than two months, such as infections, inflammatory conditions, or malignancies, characterized by hypoferremia in combination with… …   Medical dictionary

• Anemia — The condition of having less than the normal number of red blood cells or less than the normal quantity of hemoglobin in the blood. The oxygen carrying capacity of the blood is, therefore, decreased. Persons with anemia may feel tired and fatigue …   Medical dictionary

• Anemia — For other uses, see Anemia (disambiguation). Anemia Classification and external resources ICD 10 D50 D64 ICD 9 …   Wikipedia

• Secondary hypertension — While most forms of hypertension in humans have no known underlying cause (and are thus known as essential hypertension or primary hypertension ), in about 10% of the cases, there is a known cause, and thus the hypertension is secondary… …   Wikipedia

• secondary syphilis — noun the second stage; characterized by eruptions of the skin and mucous membrane • Hypernyms: ↑syphilis, ↑syph, ↑pox, ↑lues venerea, ↑lues * * * noun : the second stage of syphilis appearing from 2 to 6 months after primary infection, marked by… …   Useful english dictionary

• Aplastic anemia — Anemia due to failure of the bone marrow to produce blood cells, including red and white blood cells as well as platelets. Aplastic anemia frequently occurs without a known cause. Causes of aplastic include chemicals (benzene, toluene in glues,… …   Medical dictionary

• Iron deficiency anemia — For a discussion of iron deficiency more broadly, see the Wikipedia article iron deficiency. Iron deficiency anemia is the most common type of anemia, and is also known as sideropenic anemia. It is the most common cause of microcytic anemia. Iron …   Wikipedia

• Aplastic anemia — ICDO = Caption = OMIM = 609135 OMIM mult = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = med eMedicineTopic = 162 DiseasesDB = 866 MeshID = D000741 Aplastic anemia is a condition where bone marrow does not produce sufficient new cells to replenish blood cells.… …   Wikipedia

• infectious hemolytic anemia — hemolytic anemia due to an incompletely compensated decrease in red blood cell survival secondary to infection …   Medical dictionary

• autoimmune hemolytic anemia — (AIHA) any of a large group of anemias involving autoantibodies against red cell antigens. Those due to warm reactive antibodies, usually IgG but occasionally IgM or IgA, may be idiopathic or secondary to autoimmune diseases, hematologic… …   Medical dictionary

• medicine, history of — Introduction  the development of the prevention and treatment of disease from prehistoric and ancient times to the 20th century. Medicine and surgery before 1800 Primitive (primitive culture) medicine and folklore       Unwritten history is not… …   Universalium