hyperferricemia
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English
Etymology
From hyper- + ferric + -emia.
Noun
hyperferricemia (uncountable)
- (pathology, rare) The medical condition of having too much iron in the blood.
- 1976, Excerpta medica. Section 25: Hematology, volume 14, page 335:
- The anemia was characterized by hypochromasia of the erythrocytes, hyperferricemia, absence of hemolysis, and hyperplastic, ineffective, sideroblastic erythropoiesis of the bone marrow.
- 1986, Kenneth L. Garver, Genetic Counseling for Clinicians, page 130:
- Deaths from hemochromatosis plus hyperferricemia have been reported.
- 2006, Julia A. McMillan, Oski's Pediatrics: Principles & Practice, page 2357:
- A defect in ALAS2 results in X-linked sideroblastic anemia, which is characterized by hypochromic microcytic anemia that frequently is detected in childhood, hemochromatosis that leads to death at a relatively young age, hyperferricemia, increased peripheral siderocytes after splenectomy, and reduced protoporphyrin levels in the microcytes.
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hyperferremia — see hyperferremia