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)
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: 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
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: spurner: a person who rejects (someone or something) with contempt
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: elaeocarpaceae: genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber; in some classifications included in the family Santalaceae
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: gempylus: type genus of the Gempylidae
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: cystine: a crystalline amino acid found in proteins (especially keratin); discovered in bladder stones
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: papoose: an American Indian infant
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: hush: (poetic) tranquil silence
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: iodination: the substitution or addition of iodine atoms in organic compounds
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: necrophagia: feeding on corpses or carrion
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: phoeniculus: type and only genus of the family Phoeniculidae