thrombasthenia
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From thromb- + asthenia, literally "clotting/platelet weakness"; compare thrombopenia, "clotting/platelet paucity".
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
thrombasthenia (countable and uncountable, plural thrombasthenias)
- (medicine) An abnormality of platelets involving not a paucity thereof but rather a dysfunction thereof, impairing clotting.