thrombocytopenia

English

Alternative forms

• thrombocytopaenia is an incorrect spelling of this word, and is based on the false assumption that the -penia was converted into American English from British English from -paenia.

Etymology

From thrombocyte +‎ -o- +‎ -penia.

Noun

thrombocytopenia (countable and uncountable, plural thrombocytopenias)

1. (hematology) An abnormally low number of platelets in the blood.

   Synonym: thrombopenia

Derived terms

• idiopathic thrombocytopenia
• immune thrombocytopenia
• immunothrombocytopenia
• microthrombocytopenia
• severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS)
• thrombocytopenic
• thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS)
• thrombotic thrombocytopenia
• vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT)
• vaccine-induced prothrombotic immune thrombocytopenia (VIPIT)

 

Translations

abnormally low platelet count

• Catalan: trombocitopènia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 血小板减少

• Czech: trombocytopenie f
• Dutch: trombocytopenie (nl) f
• Esperanto: trombocitopenio
• French: thrombocytopénie (fr) f
• German: Thrombozytopenie f
• Hungarian: trombocitopénia
• Indonesian: trombositopenia
• Irish: trombaicítipéine f
• Italian: piastrinopenia (it), trombocitopenia f
• Korean: 혈소판감소증 (hyeolsopan'gamsojeung)
• Macedonian: тромбоцитопенија ? (trombocitopenija)
• Polish: małopłytkowość (pl) f
• Portuguese: trombocitopenia f
• Romanian: trombocitopenie (ro) f
• Russian: тромбоцитопения (ru) f (trombocitopenija)
• Slovak: trombocytopénia (sk) f
• Spanish: trombocitopenia f
• Swedish: trombocytopeni (sv) c
• Thai: เกล็ดเลือดน้อย (grèt-lʉ̂ʉat-nɔ́ɔi)
• Turkish: trombositopeni