AFIBRINOGENEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does afibrinogenemia mean? 

• AFIBRINOGENEMIA (noun)
  The noun AFIBRINOGENEMIA has 1 sense:

1. the absence of fibrinogen in the plasma leading to prolonged bleeding

  Familiarity information: AFIBRINOGENEMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFIBRINOGENEMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The absence of fibrinogen in the plasma leading to prolonged bleeding

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

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

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

congenital afibrinogenemia (a rare congenital disorder of blood coagulation in which no fibrinogen is found in the blood plasma)