mediterranean anemia

English Thesaurus

1. an inherited form of anemia caused by faulty synthesis of hemoglobin (noun.state)

hypernym	:	monogenic disease, monogenic disorder,
definition	:	an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes (noun.state)

hypernym	:	hypochromic anaemia, hypochromic anemia,
definition	:	anemia characterized by a decrease in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin (noun.state)

hyponym	:	cooley's anaemia, cooley's anemia, thalassaemia major, thalassemia major,
definition	:	a fatal form of homozygous thalassemia (inherited from both parents) in which there is no hemoglobin; skeletal deformations; heart and spleen and liver enlarged (noun.state)