anaemia vs sickle-cell anemia

sickle-cell anemia vs anaemia

anaemia and sickle-cell anemia both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
anaemia	Yes	No	No	No
sickle-cell anemia	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sickle-cell anemia is a hyponym of anaemia; that is, sickle-cell anemia is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than anaemia:

anaemia: a deficiency of red blood cells
sickle-cell anemia: a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape

Other hyponyms of anaemia include aplastic anaemia, aplastic anemia, erythroblastosis fetalis, congenital pancytopenia, Fanconi's anaemia, Fanconi's anemia, favism, haemolytic anaemia, hemolytic anemia, hyperchromic anaemia, hyperchromic anemia, hypochromic anaemia, hypochromic anemia, hypoplastic anaemia, hypoplastic anemia, iron deficiency anaemia, iron deficiency anemia, ischaemia, ischemia, macrocytic anaemia, macrocytic anemia, microcytic anaemia, microcytic anemia, malignant anaemia, malignant anemia, pernicious anaemia, pernicious anemia, refractory anaemia, refractory anemia, crescent-cell anaemia, crescent-cell anemia, drepanocytic anaemia, drepanocytic anemia, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell disease.

anaemia (noun)	sickle-cell anemia (noun)
a deficiency of red blood cells	a congenital form of anemia occurring mostly in blacks; characterized by abnormal blood cells having a crescent shape
a lack of vitality

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