Term: 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)
Candidate hypernym: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples → 1
Candidate hypernym: ginkgoales: coextensive with the family Ginkgoaceae: plants that first appeared in the Permian and now represented by a single surviving species; often included in Coniferales → 0
Candidate hypernym: spurner: a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt → 0
Candidate hypernym: elaeocarpaceae: genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber; in some classifications included in the family Santalaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: gempylus: type genus of the Gempylidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: cystine: a crystalline amino acid found in proteins (especially keratin); discovered in bladder stones → 0
Candidate hypernym: papoose: an American Indian infant → 0
Candidate hypernym: hush: (poetic) tranquil silence → 0
Candidate hypernym: iodination: the substitution or addition of iodine atoms in organic compounds → 0
Candidate hypernym: necrophagia: feeding on corpses or carrion → 0
Candidate hypernym: phoeniculus: type and only genus of the family Phoeniculidae → 0