anemia vs sickle-cell anaemia

sickle-cell anaemia vs anemia

anemia and sickle-cell anaemia both are nouns.

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

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

anemia: a deficiency of red blood cells
sickle-cell anaemia: 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, drepanocytic anemia, sickle-cell anemia, sickle-cell disease.

anemia (noun)	sickle-cell anaemia (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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