aplastic anaemia

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   anemia characterized by pancytopenia resulting from failure of the bone marrow; can be caused by neoplasm or by toxic exposure

   Synonymsaplastic anemia

   Broaderanemia

Questions about aplastic anaemia

What does aplastic anaemia mean?

aplastic anaemia means "anemia characterized by pancytopenia resulting from failure of the bone marrow; can be caused by neoplasm or by toxic exposure".

What is another word for aplastic anaemia?

Close synonyms include aplastic anemia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aplastic anaemia a common word?

aplastic anaemia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.