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MONOCYTOSIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does monocytosis mean?
• MONOCYTOSIS (noun)
The noun MONOCYTOSIS has 1 sense:
1. increase in the number of monocytes in the blood; symptom of monocytic leukemia
Familiarity information: MONOCYTOSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Increase in the number of monocytes in the blood; symptom of monocytic leukemia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("monocytosis" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
Context examples
A myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm which is characterized by persistent monocytosis, absence of a Philadelphia chromosome and BCR/ABL fusion gene, fewer than 20 percent blasts in the bone marrow and blood, myelodysplasia, and absence of PDGFRA or PDGFRB rearrangement.
(Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)
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