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dysfibrinogenemia

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dysfibrinogenemia /dys·fi·brin·o·ge·ne·mia/ (dis-fi-brin″o-jĕ-ne´me-ah) the presence in the blood of abnormal fibrinogen.
dys·fi·brin·o·ge·ne·mi·a (dsf-brn-j-nm-, -fbr-n-)
n.
A familial disorder in which fibrinogens function inadequately resulting in symptoms ranging from bleeding to thrombosis.

dysfibrinogenemia
the presence of abnormal fibrinogens in the body. An inherited dysfibrinogenemia occurs in humans and has been reported in a collie dog.

dysfibrinogenemia
A group of qualitative, usually AD, fibrinogen defects ranging in severity from innocuous to hemorrhagic diathesis; most are asymptomatic and detected by presurgical screens, given the abnormalities in coagulation parameters; these subjects suffer frequent spontaneous abortion, bleeding, poor wound healing, and thrombosis Lab Normal fibrinogen and clotting times; ↑ PT, ↑ thrombin time, ↑ reptilase time. See Fibrinogen.


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