hemoglobinuria love

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The presence of hemoglobin in the urine.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun (NL. hæmoglobinuria, ⟨ hemoglobin + Gr. ου\ρον, urine.] In pathology, the presence of free hemoglobin in the urine.

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  • noun medicine The presence of hemoglobin in the urine

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  • noun presence of hemoglobin in the urine

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Examples

  • The disorder, paroxysymal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), hits 8,000 Americans.

    The World's Most Expensive Drugs 2010

  • Other symptoms are severe anemia due to hemolysis, which is destruction of the red blood cells, hemoglobinuria, which is hemoglobin in the urine, due to hemolysis, and pulmonary edema, or fluid buildup in the lungs.

    Malaria 2008

  • "We believe the Street is not fully factoring in the price that Alexion will command for ultra-orphan product Soliris for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria PNH, a rare blood disorder with severe anemia and requiring frequent blood transfusion," wrote analyst David Munno.

    Alexion's Soliris Seen With Big Sales Potential 2006

  • "Given the strength of these data we are proactively raising our annual price assumptions for Eculizumab treatment in PNH paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria," the firm said.

    Drug Approvals, Earnings Energize Drug Stocks 2006

  • Winckel's disease, or epidemic hemoglobinuria, is a very fatal affection, sometimes epidemic in lying-in institutions; it develops about the fourth day after birth.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Winckel's disease, or epidemic hemoglobinuria, is a very fatal affection, sometimes epidemic in lying-in institutions; it develops about the fourth day after birth.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Lignières has found in hemoglobinuria a streptococcus which produced nephritis, bloody urine, and paraplegia in experimental animals, including horses.

    Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877

  • Japan for the already approved disorder, called paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, or PNH.

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  • The disorder, paroxysymal nocturnal hemoglobinuria PNH, hits 8,000 Americans.

    unknown title 2011

  • Soliris, Alexion's ALXN only drug, is approved in over 35 countries to treat one rare life-threatening blood disorder called paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, or PNH. ...

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