CYCLIC NEUTROPENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cyclic neutropenia mean? 

• CYCLIC NEUTROPENIA (noun)
  The noun CYCLIC NEUTROPENIA has 1 sense:

1. neutropenia that occurs periodically

  Familiarity information: CYCLIC NEUTROPENIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYCLIC NEUTROPENIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Neutropenia that occurs periodically

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("cyclic neutropenia" is a kind of...):

neutropenia (leukopenia in which the decrease is primarily in number of neutrophils (the chief phagocytic leukocyte))

 Context examples 

In cyclic neutropenia, the number of neutrophils in the blood goes in cycles from normal to low and back to normal again.

(Cyclic neutropenia, NCI Dictionary)

Also called cyclic neutropenia.

(Periodic neutropenia, NCI Dictionary)