thalassemia

Questions about thalassemia

What does thalassemia mean?

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

How many syllables are in thalassemia?

thalassemia has 5 syllables and divides as tha-las-se-mi-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for thalassemia?

Close synonyms include thalassaemia, 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 thalassemia a common word?

thalassemia 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.