All 5 Uses
anemic
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
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- 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.†
Chpt 4anaemic = suffering from too few red blood cells
or (less commonly): lacking vitality - They gave him vitamins, and iron pills, and arsenic (in Fowler's solution) for his anaemia.†
Chpt 4anaemia = a deficiency of red blood cells or where red blood cells are deficient in hemoglobin -- resulting in fatigue
- Towards the end of the second stage, if the patient survived, anaemia, or a drop in the red blood count, also set in.†
Chpt 4
- 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.†
Chpt 5 *anemic = suffering from too few red blood cells
or (less commonly): lacking vitality - 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.†
Chpt 5anemia = a deficiency of red blood cells or where red blood cells are deficient in hemoglobin -- resulting in fatigue
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)