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aplastic anemia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.97 in modern English

Syllables
aplas-tic ane-mia
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A rare disease in which the bone marrow and the hematopoietic stem cells that reside there are damaged, causing pancytopenia.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

aplastic anemias (plural) aplastic anaemia (alternative, Commonwealth) aplastic anæmia (alternative, dated)

Synonyms

aplastic anaemia

Questions

What does aplastic anemia mean?
A rare disease in which the bone marrow and the hematopoietic stem cells that reside there are damaged, causing pancytopenia.

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