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Pernicious anaemia (medicine) and alone (iou)


Pernicious anaemia (medicine)


pernicious anaemia
<haematology> A form of anaemia (low red blood cell counts) that results when the bone marrow fails to produce adequate numbers of red blood cells due to a deficiency in vitamin B12. Intrinsic factor, necessary for normal B12 absorption, may be the underlying cause for B12 deficiency if is not produced in the gastric glands (in the stomach).

Origin: Gr. Haima = blood


alone (iou)



alone adjective (chiefly pred.) & adverb. ME.
[from ALL adverb + ONE adjective etc. Aphet. to LONE adjective, adverb.]
Quite by oneself, itself, or themselves; unaccompanied; without Other companions. Occas. attrib., solitary, lonely. ME.
go it alone act without assistance. leave alone, let alone (a) leave to himself or herself, not have dealings with, not attend to or interfere with; leave well alone, let well alone: see WELL adjective; (b) in imper. (colloq.) (now usu. let alone): not to mention, far less or more.
Coleridge Alone on a wide wide sea! J. M. Faulkner I am left alone in the sitting, With none to sit beside. D. H. Lawrence This morning Pancrazio and Giovanni had gone off somewhere, Alvina and Cicio were alone on the place. E. Bowen Two rather alone people. Day Lewis The whiteness of the cup, standing alone on the grass, is dazzling.
Having no one else sharing in one's action, feeling, or position. (Usu. in neg. contexts.) ME.
C. P. Snow Rose was not alone in that room in having a generalized dislike of scientists.
As distinct from anyone or anything else; only, exclusively. ME.
Bible (AV): Daniel 10:7 I Daniel alone saw the vision. Shakespeare Hamlet 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,..That can denote me truly. Tennyson Wisdom..which not alone had guided me, But served the seasons that may rise.
Taken or acting by itself; of itself, without anything more. Also attrib. LME.
S. Johnson He that hopes by philosophy and contemplation alone to fortify himself against that. Ld Macaulay The appointment of a ruined gambler would alone have sufficed to disgust the public.
pred. & attrib. Having no equal; being the only example; unique, exclusive. Now rare. M16.
Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona All I can is nothing To her, whose worth makes Other worthies nothing; She is alone. G. Herbert Christ is my onely head, My alone onely heart and breast.
aloneness noun LME.