CYTOPENIA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deficiency of some cellular element of the blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cytopenia" is a kind of...):

blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cytopenia"):

haematocytopenia; hematocytopenia (an abnormally low number of red blood cells in the blood)

pancytopenia (an abnormal deficiency in all blood cells (red blood cells and white blood cells and platelets); usually associated with bone marrow tumor or with aplastic anemia)

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