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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
thrombocytosis is a noun meaning "increase in the number of platelets in the blood which tends to cause clots to form; associated with many neoplasms and chronic infections and other diseases". It carries one recorded sense.
increase in the number of platelets in the blood which tends to cause clots to form; associated with many neoplasms and chronic infections and other diseases
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thrombocytosis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.