thalassaemia
Noun
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An inherited form of anemia caused by faulty synthesis of hemoglobin (synset 114219197)
is a type of:
- monogenic disease, monogenic disorder - an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes
- hypochromic anaemia, hypochromic anemia - anemia characterized by a decrease in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin
subtypes: cooley's anaemia, cooley's anemia, thalassaemia major, thalassemia major - a fatal form of homozygous thalassemia (inherited from both parents) in which there is no hemoglobin; skeletal deformations; heart and spleen and liver enlarged
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