physiologic anemia

physiologic anemia
the normocytic, normochromic anemia that occurs in infants at the age of two or three months, owing to normal depression of erythropoiesis and hemoglobin synthesis, probably resulting as an adjustment to the changeover from placental to pulmonary oxygenation.

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