blood disorder vs polycythemia

polycythemia vs blood disorder

blood disorder and polycythemia both are nouns.

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

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

blood disorder: 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 disorder 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 disorder (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 disorder and polycythemia

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