THROMBOPENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thrombopenia mean? 

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

1. a blood disease characterized by an abnormally small number of platelets in the blood

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THROMBOPENIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A blood disease characterized by an abnormally small number of platelets in the blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

thrombocytopenia; thrombopenia

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.))

 Context examples 

A syndrome associated with a variety of diseases, notably systemic lupus erythematosus and other connective tissue diseases, thrombopenia, and arterial or venous thromboses, marked by the presence of antibodies directed against phospholipids.

(Antiphospholipid Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)