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Definition of Megaloblastic anemia

1. Noun. Anemia characterized by many large immature and dysfunctional red blood cells (megaloblasts) in the bone marrow; associated with pernicious anemia.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Megaloblastic Anemia

Literary usage of Megaloblastic anemia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... two weeks there was such prompt hemolysis and utter loss of marrow reaction that the blood picture of the gravest megaloblastic anemia was complete. ..."

2. Alcohols Effect on Organ Function edited by Dianne M. Welsh (1997)
"Sideroblastic anemia is a common complication in severe alcoholics: Approximately one-third of these megaloblastic anemia Blood cell precursors require ..."

3. Functional Pathology of Internal Diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"A megaloblastic anemia occurs in only a small proportion of patients harboring this parasite, so that its occurrence appears to depend upon some ..."

4. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"A megaloblastic anemia occurs in only a small proportion of patients harboring this parasite, so that its occurrence appears to depend upon some ..."

5. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1902)
"... three cases of chronic small-celled leukemia, two cases of acute leukemia, two of fatal megaloblastic anemia, apparently acute, one of which has been ..."

6. Disease of the Blood by Paul Ehrlich, Carl von Noorden, Adolf Lazarus, Felix Pinkus (1905)
"For instance, it is by no means a rarity to see an apparent recovery from a megaloblastic anemia, which recurs, however, after a longer or shorter period, ..."

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