Both Uses of
anemic
in
Arrowsmith
- In his second year of internship, when the thrills of fires and floods and murder became as obvious a routine as bookkeeping, when he had seen the strangely few ways in which mankind can contrive to injure themselves and slaughter one another, when it was merely wearing to have to live up to the pretentiousness of being The Doctor, Martin tried to satisfy and perhaps kill his guilty scientific lust by voluntary scrabbling about the hospital laboratory, correlating the blood counts in pernicious anemia.†
Chpt 11
- Robert was a square-rigged, swart, tempestuous boy, arrogant where there seemed to be no reason for arrogance, longed for by the anemic, milky sort of girls, yet ever supercilious to them.†
Chpt 13 *
Definition:
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(anemia) a deficiency of red blood cells or where red blood cells are deficient in hemoglobin -- resulting in fatigue
or (less commonly):
suffering from a lack of energy