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• an-[=e]m'i-a, n. a term employed to denote those conditions in which there is a deficiency of blood or of its red corpuscles: lack or poverty of blood marked by paleness and languor.--adj. ANÆM'IC. [Gr.; made up of an, neg., haima, blood.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson