CONGENITAL AFIBRINOGENEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does congenital afibrinogenemia mean? 

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

1. a rare congenital disorder of blood coagulation in which no fibrinogen is found in the blood plasma

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONGENITAL AFIBRINOGENEMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A rare congenital disorder of blood coagulation in which no fibrinogen is found in the blood plasma

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

congenital disease; genetic abnormality; genetic defect; genetic disease; genetic disorder; hereditary condition; hereditary disease; inherited disease; inherited disorder (a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically)

afibrinogenemia (the absence of fibrinogen in the plasma leading to prolonged bleeding)