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ESSENTIAL THROMBOCYTOPENIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does essential thrombocytopenia mean?
• ESSENTIAL THROMBOCYTOPENIA (noun)
The noun ESSENTIAL THROMBOCYTOPENIA has 1 sense:
1. 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.)
Familiarity information: ESSENTIAL THROMBOCYTOPENIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ESSENTIAL THROMBOCYTOPENIA (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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.)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("essential thrombocytopenia" is a kind of...):
thrombocytopenia; thrombopenia (a blood disease characterized by an abnormally small number of platelets in the blood)
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