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Definition: Thrombocytopenia |
ThrombocytopeniaNoun1. A blood disease characterized by an abnormally small number of platelets in the blood. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | A decrease in the number of blood platelets. (references) |
Medicine | Reduction in the number of platelets in the blood. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: ThrombocytopeniaSynonym: thrombopenia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Thrombocytopenia |
| English words defined with "thrombocytopenia": essential thrombocytopenia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thrombocytopenia": Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts ♦ Carbazilquinone ♦ Graft vs Host Disease ♦ Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome ♦ Platelet Activating Factor, Purpura, Thrombocytopenic, Idiopathic, Purpura, Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic ♦ Sea-Blue Histiocyte Syndrome. (references) |
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Health | The patient with severe thrombocytopenia may benefit from prophylactic administration of platelets. (references) | |
With an expected pattern of bleeding, thrombocytopenia alone is not an indication for platelet transfusion. (references) | ||
Severe thrombocytopenia may predispose patients to bleeding from routine mechanical oral hygiene procedures. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Thrombocytopenia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Thrombocytopenia" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "thrombocytopenia": essential thrombocytopenia. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "thrombocytopenia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | trombocytopeni (thrombocytopaenia), thrombopeni (thrombopenia), thrombocytopeni (thrombopenia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | thrombopenie (thrombopenia), thrombocytopenie (thrombopenia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | trombosytopenia (thrombopenia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | thrombopénie (thrombopenia), thrombocytopénie (thrombopenia), plaquettopénie (thrombopenia), athrombie (thrombopenia), aplaquettose (thrombopenia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Thrombozytopenie (thrombocytopaenia), Thrombopenie (thrombopenia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | θρομβοκυτταροπενία (thrombopenia), θρομβοπενία (thrombopenia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | trombopenia (thrombopenia), trombocitopenia (thrombocytopaenia), piastrinopenia (thrombopenia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ombocytopeniathray trombocitopenia (thrombocytopaenia). (various references) trombopenia (thrombopenia). (various references) trombopeni (thrombopenia), trombocytopeni (thrombopenia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "thrombocytopenia": thrombocytopenias. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-h-i-m-n-o-o-o-p-r-t-t-y" | |
-3 letters: photoreaction. | |
-4 letters: actinomorphy. | |
-5 letters: actinometry, bathymetric, botheration, combinatory, cooperation, embrocation, mythopoetic, photometric, retinopathy, thoracotomy, thrombocyte, tracheotomy. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-h-i-m-n-o-o-o-p-r-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: thrombocytopenias. | |
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