Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun essential_thrombocytopenia

1 sense of essential thrombocytopenia

Sense 1
essential thrombocytopenia -- (the primary form of thrombocytopenia (rather than a shortage of platelets caused by other conditions such as tuberculosis or chemical suppression of bone marrow etc.))
       => thrombocytopenia, thrombopenia -- (a blood disease characterized by an abnormally small number of platelets in the blood)