THROMBASTHENIA
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)
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)
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