Thalassemia
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Related to Thallasemia: thalassemia major, Thalassemia minor
thalassemia
[‚thal·ə′sē·mē·ə] (medicine)
A hereditary form of hemolytic anemia resulting from a defective synthesis of hemoglobin: thalassemia major is the homozygous state accompanied by clinical illness, and thalassemia minor is the heterozygous state and may not have evident clinical manifestations. Also known as Mediterranean anemia.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Thalassemia
(also thalassanemia), a familial hemolytic anemia, first detected in 1925 among inhabitants of the Mediterranean region. Thalassemia is caused by disturbances in hemoglobin synthesis.
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