Diamond-Blackfan anemia

noun

A congenital erythroid aplasia that usually presents in infancy.

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Meanings

nounDiamond-Blackfan anemia (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA congenital erythroid aplasia that usually presents in infancy.

Origin

The condition was first noted by Hugh W. Josephs in 1936, but is named for the pediatricians Louis K. Diamond and Kenneth Blackfan, who described it in 1938.

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