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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A usually fatal form of thalassemia in which normal hemoglobin is absent, characterized by severe anemia, enlargement of the heart, liver, and spleen, and skeletal deformation.
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- noun a fatal form of homozygous thalassemia (inherited from both parents) in which there is no hemoglobin; skeletal deformations; heart and spleen and liver enlarged
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Thomas Benton Cooley, (1871–1945), American physician.]
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