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THROMBOPENIA
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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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