thrombocythemia
/ˌθɹɒmbəʊsaɪˈθiːmɪə/noun
thrombocythemia is a noun meaning “thrombocytosis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-R-O-M-B-O-C-Y-T-H-E-M-I-A, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thrombocythemia is thrombocythemias.
What does thrombocythemia mean?
noun
- 1
thrombocytosis
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce thrombocythemia?
- /ˌθɹɒmbəʊsaɪˈθiːmɪə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-thrombocythemia.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of thrombocythemia
- thrombocythemias plural
- thrombocythaemia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thrombocythemia?
Thrombocythemia appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does thrombocythemia come from?
From thrombocyte + -(h)emia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).