thrombasthenia

Definitions of thrombasthenia
  1. noun
    a rare autosomal recessive disease in which the platelets do not produce clots in the normal way and hemorrhage results
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    type of:
    autosomal recessive defect, autosomal recessive disease
    a disease caused by the presence of two recessive mutant genes on an autosome
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