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: tha-las-se-mi-a. The stress falls on "se".

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.