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Named after Eduard Glanzmann (1887-1959), the Swiss pediatrician who originally described it.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Glanzmann's thrombasthenia
Today it means: A rare coagulopathy in which the blood platelets contain defective or low levels of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa (GpIIb/IIIa), which is a receptor for fibrinogen. Full definition →