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Definition of Anemic

1. Adjective. Lacking vigor or energy. "An anemic attempt to hit the baseball"

Definition of Anemic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to anemia. ¹

2. Adjective. (by extension) Weak; listless; lacking power, vigor, vitality, or colorfulness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Anemic

1. anemia [adj] - See also: anemia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anemic

Literary usage of Anemic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"The typhoid bacillus possesses it to a great degree, whereas streptococci have little or no affect. Granulation of the Red Blood Corpuscles in anemic ..."

2. A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine by George Bacon Wood (1866)
"In cases already anemic, with paleness of face, lips, and tongue, though the pulse may be frequent and voluminous, bleeding should be avoided ; and it may ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... Hemorrhagic Infarction or anemic Gangrene of the Intestine) The symptoms produced by occlusion of the mesenteric arteries and veins are so similar that ..."

4. The Western Journal of Medicine and Surgery by Daniel Drake, Lundsford Pitts Yandell (1850)
"Employment of Manganese in anemic and other affections. ... He then administered manganese to some anemic patients; some of them experienced nausea for two ..."

5. Diseases of the Nervous System by Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"The factors which produce headache are especially intensified when they affect anemic or chlorotic persons. HEADACHE OF THE anemic In this form of headache ..."

6. A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: A Practical Exposition of the Methods by Solomon Solis-Cohen (1902)
"... CHAPTER I CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF METABOLISM anemic States. ... Rachitis. Constitutional Syphilis. anemic STATES In the various forms ..."

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