aplastic anemia

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsaplastic anaemia

   Broaderanemia

Questions about aplastic anemia

What does aplastic anemia mean?

aplastic anemia 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 anemia?

Close synonyms include aplastic anaemia. 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 anemia a common word?

aplastic anemia 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.