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Abnormal vs Anemia - What's the difference?

abnormal | anemia |

As nouns the difference between abnormal and anemia

is that abnormal is a person or object that is not normal while anemia is a medical condition in which the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen to the tissues is reduced, either because of too few red blood cells, or because of too little hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and fatigue.

As an adjective abnormal

is not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.

abnormal

English

Alternative forms

* anormal * (obsolete) abnormous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.
  • * 1899 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), A Duet , ch. 6:
  • And then after an abnormal meal, which was either a very late breakfast or a very early lunch, they drove on to Victoria Station.
  • Of or pertaining to that which is abnormal, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health.
  • * 1904 , (Jack London), The Sea Wolf , ch. 23:
  • Furuseth was right; I was abnormal , an "emotionless monster," a strange bookish creature, capable of pleasuring in sensations only of the mind.

    Synonyms

    * aberrant, anomalous, atypical, exceptional, extraordinary, irregular, odd, strange, unusual.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or object that is not normal.
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    anemia

    English

    (wikipedia anemia)

    Alternative forms

    * anaemia (British) *

    Noun

  • (uncountable, pathology) A medical condition in which the capacity of the blood to transport oxygen to the tissues is reduced, either because of too few red blood cells, or because of too little hemoglobin, resulting in pallor and fatigue.
  • (countable, pathology) A disease or condition that has anemia as a symptom.
  • Pernicious anemia and sickle-cell anemia are two anemias .

    Derived terms

    () * achlorhydric anemia * acquired hemolytic anemia * anemic * aplastic anemia * autoimmune hemolytic anemia * hemolytic anemia * hyperchromic anemia * hypochromic anemia * pernicious anemia * sickle-cell anemia

    See also

    * ischemia

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