thrombophilia
noun
thrombophilia is a noun meaning “The tendency to develop thrombosis (blood clots) due to an abnormality in the system of coagulation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-H-R-O-M-B-O-P-H-I-L-I-A, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of thrombophilia is thrombophilias.
What does thrombophilia mean?
noun
- 1
The tendency to develop thrombosis (blood clots) due to an abnormality in the system of coagulation.
The patient needed to take blood thinners to prevent clots from thrombophilia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of thrombophilia
- thrombophilias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thrombophilia?
Thrombophilia appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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).
Thrombophilia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | trombofilia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does thrombophilia come from?
From thrombo- + -philia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).