blood disease vs polycythemia

polycythemia vs blood disease

blood disease and polycythemia both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
blood disease	Yes	No	No	No
polycythemia	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, polycythemia is a hyponym of blood disease; that is, polycythemia is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than blood disease:

blood disease: a disease or disorder of the blood
polycythemia: a disorder characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of red blood cells in the blood

Other hyponyms of blood disease include cytopenia, acidemia, alkalemia, acanthocytosis, agranulocytosis, agranulosis, granulocytopenia, analbuminemia, Banti's disease, Banti's syndrome, parasitaemia, parasitemia, bleeder's disease, haemophilia, hemophilia, afibrinogenemia, blood poisoning, septicaemia, septicemia, erythroblastosis, haemoglobinopathy, hemoglobinopathy, histiocytosis, hydremia, hypothrombinemia, hypervolaemia, hypervolemia, hypovolaemia, hypovolemia, anaemia, anemia, leucocytosis, leukocytosis, leucopenia, leukopenia, lymphocytopenia, lymphopenia, lymphocytosis, microcytosis, peliosis, purpura, thrombocytopenia, thrombopenia, uratemia, uricaciduria.

blood disease (noun)	polycythemia (noun)
a disease or disorder of the blood	a disorder characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of red blood cells in the blood

Difference between blood disease and polycythemia

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