Construct a medical term which means a deficiency of platelets circulating in the blood.

A. thrombo + cyt + osis
B. platelo + penia
C. thrombo + cyto + penia
D. thrombo + cyt + lysis
E. platelo +cyt + osis


Answer: C

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