释义
n.
Medicine any of a group of hereditary haemolytic diseases caused by faulty haemoglobin synthesis, widespread in Mediterranean, African, and Asian countries
【医】 地中海贫血(症),库利氏贫血(病)。
词源
"1930s: from Greek thalassa ‘sea' (because the diseases were first known around the Mediterranean) + -AEMIA."