pernicious anemia

Questions about pernicious anemia

What does pernicious anemia mean?

pernicious anemia 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 pernicious anemia?

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

pernicious 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.