Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

refractory anaemia with excess blasts

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English

Syllables
re-frac-to-ry anaemi-a with- ex-cess blasts
IPA
60
Scrabble Score
33
Letters
7
Syllables
17
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of the myelodysplastic syndromes, namely having between 5-20% myeloblasts in the bone marrow; by the WHO further subdivided into RAEB-1 and RAEB-2, with 5-9% and 10-19% blasts, respectively.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

refractory anaemias with excess blasts (plural) RAEB (alternative)

Phrases

RAEB-1 RAEB-2

Frequently Paired Words

RAEB-1 RAEB-2

Questions

What does refractory anaemia with excess blasts mean?
One of the myelodysplastic syndromes, namely having between 5-20% myeloblasts in the bone marrow; by the WHO further subdivided into RAEB-1 and RAEB-2, with 5-9% and 10-19% blasts, respectively.

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