Definition of Megaloblastic anaemia

1. Noun. Anemia characterized by many large immature and dysfunctional red blood cells (megaloblasts) in the bone marrow; associated with pernicious anemia.


Medical Definition of Megaloblastic anaemia

1. Any anaemia in which there is a predominant number of megaloblastic erythroblasts, and relatively few normoblasts, among the hyperplastic erythroid cells in the bone marrow (as in pernicious anaemia). (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Megaloblastic Anaemia

megalergs
megalethoscope
megalethoscopes
megalgia
megaliter
megaliters
megalith
megalithic
megalithic structure
megaliths
megalitre
megalitres
megalo-
megaloblast
megaloblastic
megaloblastic anaemia (current term)
megaloblastic anemia
megaloblasts
megalocardia
megalocardias
megalocheiria
megalocystis
megalocyte
megalocytes
megalocythemia
megalocytic anaemia
megalocytosis
megalodactylia

Literary usage of Megaloblastic anaemia

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

1. Histology of the Blood: Normal and Pathological by Paul Ehrlich, Adolf Lazarus, W. Myers, German Sims Woodhead (1900)
"For this reason, the prognosis of megaloblastic anaemia, apart from the group of Bothriocephalus anaemia, is exceedingly bad. ..."

2. The Morphology of Normal and Pathological Blood by George A. Buckmaster (1906)
"A megaloblastic anaemia without any definite clinical history that would throw light on its causation, such as carcinoma of the rectum, granular kidney, ..."

3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1905)
"The essential feature of the disease, and the criterion in its diagnosis, is that it is a megaloblastic anaemia. 2. The widespread evidences of blood ..."

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