THROMBASTHENIA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

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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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