English Explanatory Dictionary

Diamond-Blackfan anemia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A congenital erythroid aplasia that usually presents in infancy.

Word forms

Diamond-Blackfan anemia

Etymology

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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