iron deficiency anemia

1. 1.

   a form of anemia due to lack of iron in the diet or to iron loss as a result of chronic bleeding

   Synonymsiron deficiency anaemia

   Broaderanemia

   Narrowerchlorosis

Questions about iron deficiency anemia

What does iron deficiency anemia mean?

iron deficiency anemia means "a form of anemia due to lack of iron in the diet or to iron loss as a result of chronic bleeding".

What is another word for iron deficiency anemia?

Close synonyms include iron deficiency anaemia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is iron deficiency anemia a common word?

iron deficiency anemia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.