haemolytic

haemolytic |ˌhiːməˈlɪtɪk |(US hemolytic ) ▶adjective Medicine relating to or involving the rupture or destruction of red blood cells: haemolytic anaemia.

haemolytic disease of the newborn

haemo |lyt ¦ic dis |ease of the new |born ▶noun [ mass noun ] Medicine a severe form of anaemia caused in a fetus or newborn infant by incompatibility with the mother's blood type, typically when the mother is rhesus negative and produces antibodies which attack rhesus positive fetal blood through the placenta. Also called erythroblastosis.