thalassaemia

Questions about thalassaemia

What does thalassaemia mean?

thalassaemia means "an inherited form of anemia caused by faulty synthesis of hemoglobin".

How many syllables are in thalassaemia?

thalassaemia has 6 syllables: tha-las-sa-e-mi-a. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for thalassaemia?

Close synonyms include thalassemia, Mediterranean anemia, Mediterranean 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 thalassaemia a common word?

thalassaemia 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.