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anaemia, pernicious (medicine)


anaemia, pernicious


A megaloblastic anaemia occurring in children but more commonly in later life, characterised by histamine-fast achlorhydria, in which the laboratory and clinical manifestations are based on malabsorption of vitamin b 12 due to a failure of the gastric mucosa to secrete adequate and potent intrinsic factor.