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diamond-blackfan anemia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.14 in modern English

Syllables
di-a-mond-black-fan ane-mia
IPA
38
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A congenital erythroid aplasia that usually presents in infancy.

Uncountable

Etymology

The condition was first noted by Hugh W. Josephs in 1936, but is named for the pediatricians Louis K. Diamond and Kenneth Blackfan, who described it in 1938.

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What does diamond-blackfan anemia mean?
A congenital erythroid aplasia that usually presents in infancy.
Where does diamond-blackfan anemia come from?
The condition was first noted by Hugh W. Josephs in 1936, but is named for the pediatricians Louis K. Diamond and Kenneth Blackfan, who described it in 1938.

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