thalassaemia
/ˌθæləˈsiːmɪə/( <美> thalassemia)
noun
mass noun
- Medicine any of a group of hereditary haemolytic diseases caused by faulty haemoglobin synthesis, widespread in Mediterranean, African, and Asian countries【医】地中海贫血（症）, 库利氏贫血（病）。
词源
1930s: from Greek thalassa 'sea' (because the diseases were first known around the Mediterranean) + -AEMIA.