anemia vs drepanocytic anemia

drepanocytic anemia vs anemia

anemia and drepanocytic anemia both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
anemia	Yes	No	No	No
drepanocytic anemia	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, drepanocytic anemia is a hyponym of anemia; that is, drepanocytic anemia is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than anemia:

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

Other hyponyms of anemia 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, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell anemia, sickle-cell disease.

anemia (noun)	drepanocytic 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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