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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   myelophthisic anemia, a severe anemia found in some people with diseases that affect the bone marrow by fibrosis, tumors or granulomas and hence displace the hemopoietic bone-marrow tissue into the peripheral blood uncountable

Etymology

From myelo- + phthisis.

Related phrases

bone marrow

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