thrombasthenia

1. 1.

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

   Broaderautosomal recessive disease

Other forms of thrombasthenia

plural

thrombasthenias·

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 thrombasthenia

What does thrombasthenia mean?

thrombasthenia means "a rare autosomal recessive disease in which the platelets do not produce clots in the normal way and hemorrhage results".

How many syllables are in thrombasthenia?

thrombasthenia has 5 syllables: throm-bas-the-ni-a. The stress falls on "the".

Is thrombasthenia a common word?

thrombasthenia 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.