THROMBOPENIA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A blood disease characterized by an abnormally small number of platelets in the blood

Synonyms:

thrombocytopenia; thrombopenia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("thrombopenia" is a kind of...):

blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thrombopenia"):

essential thrombocytopenia (the primary form of thrombocytopenia (rather than a shortage of platelets caused by other conditions such as tuberculosis or chemical suppression of bone marrow etc.))

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