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HYPOTHROMBINEMIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A low level of prothrombin (factor II) in the circulating blood; results in long clotting time and poor clot formation and sometimes excessive bleeding; can result from vitamin K deficiency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("hypothrombinemia" is a kind of...):
blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)