COOLEY'S ANEMIA

[Coo.ley's anemia] n [Thomas B. Cooley d. 1945 Am. pediatrician] (ca. 1935): a severe thalassemic anemia that is associated with the presence of microcytes, enlargement of the liver and spleen, increase in the erythroid bone marrow, and jaundice and that occurs esp. in children of Mediterranean parents