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spanaemia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
spanaemia
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A condition of impoverishment of the blood; a morbid state in which the red corpuscles, or other important elements of the blood, are deficient.

Archaic; Uncountable

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σπᾰνός (spănós, “rare, scarce”) + -aemia.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

spanaemias (plural)

Derived Forms

spanaemic

Questions

What does spanaemia mean?
A condition of impoverishment of the blood; a morbid state in which the red corpuscles, or other important elements of the blood, are deficient.
Where does spanaemia come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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