essential thrombocythemia

English

Alternative forms
  • essential thrombocythaemia
  • ET

Noun

essential thrombocythemia (plural essential thrombocythemias)

  1. (medicine) a rare chronic blood disorder characterised by the overproduction of platelets by megakaryocytes in the bone marrow

Synonyms
  • essential thrombocytosis, primary thrombocytosis
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