hypothrombinemia

1. 1.

   a low level of prothrombin (factor II) in the circulating blood; results in long clotting time and poor clot formation and sometimes excessive bleeding; can result from vitamin K deficiency

   Broaderblood disease

Other forms of hypothrombinemia

plural

hypothrombinemias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hypothrombinemia

What does hypothrombinemia mean?

hypothrombinemia means "a low level of prothrombin (factor II) in the circulating blood; results in long clotting time and poor clot formation and sometimes excessive bleeding; can result from vitamin K deficiency".

How many syllables are in hypothrombinemia?

hypothrombinemia has 7 syllables: hy-po-throm-bi-ne-mi-a. The stress falls on "ne".

Is hypothrombinemia a common word?

hypothrombinemia 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.