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Haemolytic anaemia (medicine) and bar 2, verb (oh)


Haemolytic anaemia (medicine)


haemolytic anaemia
<disease, haematology> Anaemia resulting from reduced red cell survival time and haemolysis, either due to an intrinsic defect in the erythrocyte (hereditary spherocytosis or ellipsocytosis, enzyme defects, haemoglobinopathy) or an extrinsic damaging agent.

For example autoantibody (autoimmune haemolytic anaemia), iso antibody, parasitic invasion of the cells (malaria), bacterial or chemical haemolysins, mechanical damage to erythrocytes.

Origin: Gr. Haima = blood


bar 2, verb (oh)



2 past tense and past participle barred present participle barring
v [T]
to officially prevent someone from entering a place or from doing something
bar sb from (doing) sth
::They seized his passport and barred him from leaving the country.
to prevent people from going somewhere by placing something in their way
::She ran back, but Francis barred her way .
::A locked gate barred my entrance to the wood.
also bar up
to shut a door or window using a bar or piece of wood so that people cannot get in or out