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• spa-n[=e]'mi-a, n. poverty of blood--also SPANÆ'MIA.--adjs. SPAN[=E]'MIC, SPANÆ'MIC. [Gr. spanos, scarce, haima, blood.]

1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
By Thomas Davidson

• Anemia; thinness of the blood.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland