fanconi's anaemia

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   a rare congenital anemia characterized by pancytopenia and hypoplasia of the bone marrow

   SynonymsFanconi's anemiacongenital pancytopenia

   Broaderanemiagenetic disease

Questions about fanconi's anaemia

What does fanconi's anaemia mean?

fanconi's anaemia means "a rare congenital anemia characterized by pancytopenia and hypoplasia of the bone marrow".

What is another word for fanconi's anaemia?

Close synonyms include Fanconi's anemia, congenital pancytopenia. 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 fanconi's anaemia a common word?

fanconi's 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.