malignant anaemia

Questions about malignant anaemia

What does malignant anaemia mean?

malignant anaemia means "a chronic progressive anemia of older adults; thought to result from a lack of intrinsic factor (a substance secreted by the stomach that is responsible for the absorption of vitamin B12)".

What is another word for malignant anaemia?

Close synonyms include pernicious anemia, pernicious anaemia, malignant anemia. 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 malignant anaemia a common word?

malignant anaemia 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.