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  • For example, all the iron in your blood which stops you from being anemic was made in a star.†   (source)
  • The little doctor is sitting behind his big desk with an anemic-looking roasted bird on a dish in front of him.†   (source)
  • Alex pulls into the narrow alley that separates our property—a strip of grass, really, a single, anemic tree, and a waist-high chain-link fence—from the next.†   (source)
  • They were a pair of white mice, I thought—only Kitsey was a spun-sugar, fairy-princess mouse whereas Andy was more the kind of luckless, anemic, pet-shop mouse you might feed to your boa constrictor.†   (source)
  • Modern doctors think it's related to sickle cell anemia, but they don't know.†   (source)
  • Though radium often causes relentless nausea, vomiting, weakness, and anemia, there's no record of Henrietta having any side effects, and no one remembers her complaining of feeling sick.†   (source)
  • He proposed life itself as a counterweight to the anemic interest in history and what he called the Christian 'slave morality.'†   (source)
  • Betsie had been born with pernicious anemia.†   (source)
  • The DMV was for some reason miles east, outside the Memphis beltway, on a road lined with anemic maples, porn shops, and churches.†   (source)
  • I went back the second time to recover from Martin's birth, since I'd gotten dangerously anemic, and to get the boys their booster shots.†   (source)
  • He chalked it up to the small windows letting in such anemic slats of light.†   (source)
  • But we'll want to run a few more tests, also make sure she's not diabetic or anemic, for instance.†   (source)
  • Mami detailed how his children were suffering, how his littlest boy was so anemic people thought he was a corpse come back to life; she told him about his oldest son, playing in the barrio, tearing open his feet and exchanging blows with his so-called friends.†   (source)
  • I considered explaining that I was anemic and had to take iron a few times a day, especially when I was under stress, but I thought better.†   (source)
  • In about 4 percent of reported E. coli 0157:H7 cases, the Shiga toxins enter the bloodstream, causing hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), which can lead to kidney failure, anemia, internal bleeding, and the destruction of vital organs.†   (source)
  • Then Dr. Pipi said that Prudence was probably anemic and would need a blood transfusion to get her through a C-section.†   (source)
  • When Hemlatha unwrapped the shrouds of cotton she found a young, pale, anemic girl.†   (source)
  • IN THE BATHROOM, the gush becomes a stream, the stream becomes a trickle, the trickle becomes an anemic dribble.†   (source)
  • If that was true, his prospects were dim, as we peered at the anemic-looking chicken wings in the old-fashioned automat-style vending machine.†   (source)
  • Negli's aplastic anemia.†   (source)
  • I told them the girl had had every attention, and that she died of pernicious anaemia.†   (source)
  • It was a copy of Raphael's Transfiguration, something I only knew because of an art history course I'd taken when I fancied myself in love with the TA who ran the class sessions—a tall, anemic guy with ski-slope cheekbones who wore black, smoked clove cigarettes, and wrote Nietzsche quotes on the back of his hand.†   (source)
  • Ganciclovir causes anemia and Foscarnet harms the kidneys.†   (source)
  • He has no pupillary signs but is unresponsive and looks anemic.†   (source)
  • She pulled down eyelids to check for anemia.†   (source)
  • He offered an anemic smile and stepped aside.†   (source)
  • His motive in the relationship seemed to resemble the need of an anemic person who receives a kind of living transfusion from the mere sight of a savagely overabundant vitality.†   (source)
  • Beer, betting, women, and work— Only thing that kept Revolution from dying of anemia was that Peace Dragoons had real talent for antagonizing.†   (source)
  • It is the most anemic scream in the history of screaming.†   (source)
  • I decided that I'm not going to be one of those tortured anemic women who despite all signs believes in her micro-talent to the bitter end.†   (source)
  • So ...if I can get the gray plates for about six hundred Glatun super-dreadnoughts, a power plant the size of a small city and a laser emitter system that can match two hundred VDAs in power ...we can get it to move at the pace of a very anemic snail and gut any fleet stupid enough to come in range," he finished with a grin.†   (source)
  • Colonel Reynolds was easy to pick out of a crowd, and he made the other Anglican communicants look like an anemic, malnourished race indeed.†   (source)
  • In his middle life, at about the time such things were known about, it was discovered that, he had pernicious anemia.†   (source)
  • After withholding taxes this meant that the anemic blue check placed on my desk each Friday by the hunchbacked little woman who managed the payroll represented emolument in the nature of a little over ninety cents an hour.†   (source)
  • All were white faced and anaemic after thirty-one days' confinement within the hull, and he had three cases of intense depression rendering those men unreliable for duty.†   (source)
  • The nightlights of the fireflies became pale and anaemic.†   (source)
  • The snow is wasting (pernicious anemia—
    See those branching veinlets of impotent blue?)†   (source)
  • He looked shrewdly at Mary, informed her she was anaemic, run down and in a bad nervous condition and she should go for at least three months to the coast at once.†   (source)
  • If she were in any way anemic I could understand it, but she is not.   (source)
    anemic = suffering from too few red blood cells
  • But the conditions of her are in no way anemic.   (source)
    anemic = having too few red blood cells in the blood serum
  • I could easily see that she was somewhat bloodless, but I could not see the usual anemic signs, and by the chance, I was able to test the actual quality of her blood,   (source)
    anemic = suffering from too few red blood cells in the blood serum
  • Hearthstone looked more like an anemic college kid who hadn't eaten in a few weeks.†   (source)
  • The reticulocyte count was up from 1 to 6 percent—Jackson had been anemic for some time.†   (source)
  • Soon the anemia left him short of breath, and he could no longer lie flat.†   (source)
  • The anemia wasn't life threatening ...as long as I took regular doses of iron.†   (source)
  • And when you looked anemic last year, Tradd, who was right there with the old iron tablets?†   (source)
  • She's got a rare blood disorder, a form of anemia.†   (source)
  • The only troublesome symptom I have now is anemia.†   (source)
  • You ever hear of something called Negli's aplastic anemia?†   (source)
  • It was Shiva's idea to deworm them and correct iron deficiency anemia before surgery.†   (source)
  • Then at last he said, "I will bet anyone a hundred dollars that you have a severe deficiency anemia.†   (source)
  • Now you say I have anemia, and I think you must be right.†   (source)
  • Besides the Bible, clothing, and toilet things, it now held vitamins, aspirins, iron pills for Betsie's anemia, and much else.†   (source)
  • It wasn't much more than a meandering dirt lane, one car wide in spots, cutting through the blandness of sagebrush and ducking down to an anemic border river.†   (source)
  • I am a son of Apollo, you anemic loser.†   (source)
  • After a while Mom got me calmed down a little, and Dr. Mutant was able to tell us that researchers had developed a new way of delivering the eye medicine so it won't cause anemia.†   (source)
  • Only 57 percent of adults said they had enough to eat throughout the year, and 55 percent are anemic.†   (source)
  • The twilight was draining the sky without the wound of a sunset; it looked more like the fading of an anemic body in the process of exhausting its last drops of blood and light.†   (source)
  • Indeed, ordinary worms kill 130,000 people a year, typically through anemia or intestinal obstruction, and the anemia particularly affects menstruating girls.†   (source)
  • Was it anemic?†   (source)
  • I'm anemic.†   (source)
  • Aplastic anemia can be reversed.†   (source)
  • An old man, and pale: anemia.†   (source)
  • It's severe, this Negli's anemia?†   (source)
  • "He looks anemic, not just icteric," she managed to say at last, clinging to the idiom of medicine to describe my pallor and jaundice.†   (source)
  • He was dehydrated, but not anemic.†   (source)
  • Look at how anemic she is!†   (source)
  • The shading of her words brought some reassurance, but of a fragile and anemic sort; it bespoke loyalty and a kind of lovingness and a desire—even a resolute desire—to maintain old ties.†   (source)
  • So then last year, when she arrived over here in America, she still had a quite serious, I mean a really serious, case of anemia.†   (source)
  • It had not always been that way; during their first days together he had scarcely seemed aware of the raw actuality of the experience she had gone through, even though the by-products of that experience—her malnutrition, her anemia, her vanished teeth—had been his constant and devoted concern.†   (source)
  • He had (helped by the good offices of his brother Larry) restored her to health, causing her bloodsucking anemia to be corrected at Columbia Presbyterian, where the gifted Dr. Hatfield found a few other nutritional defects that needed straightening out.†   (source)
  • And anemia.†   (source)
  • Anemia, I mean.†   (source)
  • He claimed no intricate or extensive medical knowledge, and had no use for the lay habit of venturing amateur diagnoses of illness; his training had, however, made him more than ordinarily enlightened about the chemical vagaries and ailments of the human body, and so the moment he first laid eyes on Sophie ("this sweetie," he murmured with enormous concern and gentleness, twisting the lock of her hair) he guessed, with dead accuracy as it turned out, that her ravaged appearance was the result of a deficiency anemia.†   (source)
  • You won't be a little disciple putting up anemic little things in early Jacobean or late Cameron.†   (source)
  • They gave him vitamins, and iron pills, and arsenic (in Fowler's solution) for his anaemia.†   (source)
  • But he noticed that the edge of her eyelid was pale and he began to wonder whether she was anemic.†   (source)
  • Dyspepsia, Anaemia, Toxaemia.†   (source)
  • Yaeko and Myeko, the two daughters, were anemic, but all three had so far escaped any of the more serious complications that so many young hibakusha were suffering.†   (source)
  • He had galloping political anemia.†   (source)
  • I read on and discovered that these two young women were engaged in mincing liver, which is, it seems, a cure for pernicious anaemia; although one of them was married and had—I think I am right in stating—two small children.†   (source)
  • Neil Dumont was a lanky, anemic society youth, with shoulders stooped under the burden of too many illustrious ancestors.†   (source)
  • There were several ailments, less life-threatening than the cancers, that were thought by many doctors — and by most of the people who were subject to them — to have resulted from exposure to the bomb: several sorts of anemia, liver dysfunction, sexual problems, endocrine disorders, accelerated aging, and the not-quite-really-sick yet undeniable debilitation of which so many complained.†   (source)
  • Towards the end of the second stage, if the patient survived, anaemia, or a drop in the red blood count, also set in.†   (source)
  • She had had a splendid appetite—as on rare occasions of her childhood when she came running home after a day spent in the woods and her mother was so pleased, because her mother was afraid that she might grow up to be anemic.†   (source)
  • He complained that the bomb had upset his digestion and given him abdominal pains, His white blood count was three thou— sand (five to seven thousand is normal), he was seriously anaemic, and his temperature was 104.†   (source)
  • She's just the kind for whom the world is well lost—the world with all its problems and all its opportunities for greatness—oh, yes, well lost because she's innocent and sweet and pretty and anemic.†   (source)
  • No doubt of it, totally anemic, just as I said.†   (source)
  • "Don't you be in too much hurry about that door," said the anaemic cabman, anxiously.†   (source)
  • There are two anemic towers, one roofed with copper, the other crowned with castiron ferns.†   (source)
  • As for yourself— you've always been rather anemic, am I right?†   (source)
  • Her anaemia made her rather short of breath, and she held her mouth slightly open.†   (source)
  • He immediately noticed that I am rather anemic.†   (source)
  • She was dreadfully anaemic and suffered from the dyspepsia which accompanies that ailing.†   (source)
  • "Yes, healthy except for anemia," Hans Castorp said.†   (source)
  • He laughed angrily at his own foolishness: it was absurd to care what an anaemic little waitress said to him; but he was strangely humiliated.†   (source)
  • But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anaemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.†   (source)
  • She had known Nettie Crane as one of the discouraged victims of over-work and anaemic parentage: one of the superfluous fragments of life destined to be swept prematurely into that social refuse-heap of which Lily had so lately expressed her dread.†   (source)
  • And note that this is most filthy and deadening and brutalizing work; that it is a cause of anemia, nervousness, ugliness, and ill-temper; of prostitution, suicide, and insanity; of drunken husbands and degenerate children—for all of which things the community has naturally to pay.†   (source)
  • She had become so dully habituated to married life that in her full matronliness she was as sexless as an anemic nun.†   (source)
  • How in the face of this suddenly frosted and blanched affection to pretend an interest he did not feel—how, indeed, continue with a relationship which now, as alive and vigorous as it might have been as little as fifteen days before, appeared exceedingly anemic and colorless.†   (source)
  • At the Kenilworth Amory met Burne Holiday—he of the gray eyes was Kerry—and during a limpid meal of thin soup and anaemic vegetables they stared at the other freshmen, who sat either in small groups looking very ill at ease, or in large groups seeming very much at home.†   (source)
  • He could only remember seeing them in their group by the photographs, but these characterless, anaemic young people were indeed officials from his bank, not colleagues of his, that was putting it too high and it showed a gap in the omniscience of the supervisor, but they were nonetheless junior members of staff at the bank.†   (source)
  • Their hair was but half attended to, their ears anemic in hue, and their shoes broken in leather and run down at heel and toe.†   (source)
  • In the dingy old front parlor which she had tried to make smart with a pier glass, covers from fashion magazines, anemic French prints, Mrs. Swiftwaite moved smoothly among the dress-dummies and hat-rests, spoke smoothly as she took up a small black and red turban.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • She broke off again, and meeting the encouragement in Lily's eyes, went on, with a flush rising under her anaemic skin: "You see I wasn't only just SICK that time you sent me off—I was dreadfully unhappy too.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "What's the shouting about!" said the anaemic cabman, going off at a tangent, trying to see up the hill over the dirty yellow blind in the low window of the inn.†   (source)
  • The barman leant his fat red arms on the counter and talked of horses with an anaemic cabman, while a black-bearded man in grey snapped up biscuit and cheese, drank Burton, and conversed in American with a policeman off duty.†   (source)
  • When Babbitt was driving down to the office he overtook Eathorne's car, with the great banker sitting in anemic solemnity behind his chauffeur.†   (source)
  • One shoulder was lower than the other; one arm she carried in contorted fashion, as though it were paralyzed; and behind a high collar of cheap lace there was a gouge in the anemic neck which had once been shining and softly plump.†   (source)
  • I say, you are anaemic,' said Philip.†   (source)
  • Among the pictures, hung in the exact center of each gray panel, were a red and black imitation English hunting-print, an anemic imitation boudoir-print with a French caption of whose morality Babbitt had always been rather suspicious, and a "hand-colored" photograph of a Colonial room—rag rug, maiden spinning, cat demure before a white fireplace.†   (source)
  • Philip looked at her as she bent over her work; she was healthy, strong, and normal; it must be odd to see her among the other girls in the shop with their flat chests and anaemic faces.†   (source)
  • Anemic—he, Tienappel, was anemic?†   (source)
  • She came from somewhere in the Baltic region, anemic, lymphatic, there were perhaps more serious problems as well.†   (source)
  • Mildred suffered from anaemia.†   (source)
  • They came in, strings of anaemic girls, with large fringes and pallid lips, who could not digest their bad, insufficient food; old ladies, fat and thin, aged prematurely by frequent confinements, with winter coughs; women with this, that, and the other, the matter with them.†   (source)
  • Totally anemic, of course," he said, and mechanically stepped up to Hans Castorp, extended two fingers, and pulled an eyelid down.†   (source)
  • He was not so terribly healthy after all—totally anemic, just as Director Behrens had said, and that was probably why he tended to chill so easily.†   (source)
  • Because Mildred was indifferent to him he had thought her sexless; her anaemic appearance and thin lips, the body with its narrow hips and flat chest, the languor of her manner, carried out his supposition; and yet she was capable of sudden passions which made her willing to risk everything to gratify them.†   (source)
  • Her case was negligible, really more suspicion than fact, even though Elly was delicate, and obviously anemic, too—but definitely a likable girl, the son you would have loved to pat on her flax-blond head, as the director did regularly whenever he spoke to her in the dining hall.†   (source)
  • She was very anaemic.†   (source)
  • At their very first meeting, in fact, the supervising physician had found him very anemic, and in consequence of all this, it now appeared that the length of stay that he—Hans Castorp—had originally planned could no longer be regarded as sufficient.†   (source)
  • —learned, as we said, from the director that not only had it been a tip-top notion to provide his lonely nephew a little company up here, but that he had also acted very much in his own interest, since he was apparently totally anemic.†   (source)
  • He was probably a little anemic from the start, or so Dr. Heidekind said, prescribing for him a nice daily glass of porter, to be drunk with his snack when he returned from school—a robust brew, as everyone knows, which Dr. Heidekind believed helped build the blood and which, however that might be, Hans Castorp discovered, much to his satisfaction, had a calming effect on his spirits and pleasantly assisted him in his proclivity to "doze"—as his Uncle Tienappel put it—when he would sit with his mouth slightly open, dreaming away without a single firm thought in his head.†   (source)
  • He felt, moreover, that it had been quite unnecessary for the director to suggest he adopt the customs of the patients here because of his anemia—he would have done so all on his own.†   (source)
  • Andrey Semyonovitch was an anaemic, scrofulous little man, with strangely flaxen mutton-chop whiskers of which he was very proud.†   (source)
  • What're you lookin' so anemic about, Bernard?   (source)
    anemic = worn out (lacking vitality)
  • [To his boys] What an anemic†   (source)
  • Such forms as /gram/, /cocain/, /chlorid/, /anemia/ and /anilin/ are the products of its influence.†   (source)
  • Anemic a little.†   (source)
  • [Pg242] VII Differences in Spelling § 1 /Typical Forms/—Some of the salient differences between American and English spelling are shown in the following list of common words: /American/ /English/ Anemia anaemia aneurism aneurysm annex (noun) annexe arbor arbour armor armour asphalt asphalte ataxia ataxy ax axe balk (verb) baulk baritone barytone bark (ship) barque behavior behaviour behoove behove buncombe bunkum burden (ship's) burthen cachexia cachexy caliber calibre candor candour center centre check (bank) cheque checkered chequered cid†   (source)
  • [18] They also support the /ae/ in such words as /aetiology/, /aesthetics/, /mediaeval/ and /anaemia/, and the /oe/ in /oesophagus/, [Pg258] /manoeuvre/ and /diarrhoea/†   (source)
  • The Riverside Press, even in books intended only for America, prefers certain English forms, among them, /anaemia/, /axe/, /mediaeval/, /mould/, /plough/, /programme/ and /quartette/, but in compensation it stands by such typical Americanisms as /caliber/, /calk/, /center/, /cozy/, /defense/, /foregather/, /gray/, /hemorrhage/, /luster/, /maneuver/, /mustache/, /theater/ and /woolen/.†   (source)
  • [Pg242] VII Differences in Spelling § 1 /Typical Forms/—Some of the salient differences between American and English spelling are shown in the following list of common words: /American/ /English/ Anemia anaemia aneurism aneurysm annex (noun) annexe arbor arbour armor armour asphalt asphalte ataxia ataxy ax axe balk (verb) baulk baritone barytone bark (ship) barque behavior behaviour behoove behove buncombe bunkum burden (ship's) burthen cachexia cachexy caliber calibre candor candour center centre check (bank) cheque checkered chequered cider cyd†   (source)
  • Tuberculosis, malaria, dysentery, malnutrition, anemia, eye ailments, and festering wounds were widespread.   (source)
    anemia = a deficiency of red blood cells -- resulting in fatigue
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