THROMBASTHENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thrombasthenia mean? 

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

1. a rare autosomal recessive disease in which the platelets do not produce clots in the normal way and hemorrhage results

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THROMBASTHENIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rare autosomal recessive disease in which the platelets do not produce clots in the normal way and hemorrhage results

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

autosomal recessive defect; autosomal recessive disease (a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome)

 Context examples 

Mutations in the gene are associated with Glanzmann thrombasthenia.

(ITGA2B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)