thalassemia

Synonyms:

Mediterranean anaemia, Mediterranean anemia, thalassaemia

Types:

Cooley's anaemia, Cooley's anemia, thalassaemia major, thalassemia major

a fatal form of homozygous thalassemia (inherited from both parents) in which there is no hemoglobin; skeletal deformations; heart and spleen and liver enlarged

Type of:

monogenic disease, monogenic disorder

an inherited disease controlled by a single pair of genes

hypochromic anaemia, hypochromic anemia

anemia characterized by a decrease in the concentration of corpuscular hemoglobin