| pernicious |
baneful: exceedingly harmful insidious: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison"
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| pernicious anemia |
a chronic progressive anemia of older adults; thought to result from a lack of intrinsic factor (a substance secreted by the stomach that is responsible for the absorption of vitamin B12)
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| pernicious anemia |
A type of anemia (low red blood cell count) caused by the body's inability to absorb vitamin B12.
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| pernicious anemia |
an anemia caused by a failure to absorb vitamin B12; which is essential in the production of normal red blood cells
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| pernicious |
Destructive, sometimes fatal.
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