anemic.

1. Affected by reduced effective red-cell or hemoglobin capacity.

2. Lacking strength, energy, or effectiveness.

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• anemic patient

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The anemic patient tired quickly.

Tests showed that he was anemic.

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Primary category: horror. Forms: Use more/most only for naturally gradable descriptive applications; technical classifications are normally non-gradable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.