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Etymology

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thrombocyte +‎ -emia

Noun

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thrombocytemia (countable and uncountable, plural thrombocytemias)

  1. (pathology) The presence of thrombocytes in the blood
    • 2015, Mihaela TEVET et al., “Influence of the JAK2 V617F Mutation and Inherited Thrombophilia on the Thrombotic Risk among Patients with Myeloproliferative Disorders”, in Mædica[1], volume 10:
      We studied 192 patients with myeloproliferative disorders, 90 with Essential thrombocytemia (ET), 42 with Polycythemia vera (PV) and 60 with Primary or idiopathic myelofibrosis (PMI).