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PANCYTOPENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pancytopenia mean? 

PANCYTOPENIA (noun)
  The noun PANCYTOPENIA has 1 sense:

1. 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 anemiaplay

  Familiarity information: PANCYTOPENIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PANCYTOPENIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

cytopenia (a deficiency of some cellular element of the blood)


 Context examples 


Signs and symptoms include hepatosplenomegaly, pancytopenia, ataxia, dystonia, and dementia.

(Niemann-Pick Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Administration of filgrastim-primed PBPCs following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation provides increased numbers of progenitor cells which may prevent pancytopenia and relapse.

(Filgrastim-primed Peripheral Blood Progenitor Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Bone marrow failure defined as pancytopenia, due to exposure to a known toxin or drug.

(Drug/Toxin-Induced Aplastic Anemia, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients are usually infants presenting with fever, hepatosplenomegaly, lymphadenopathy, bone and skin lesions, and pancytopenia.

(Letterer-Siwe Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Most patients are middle-aged to elderly adults and present with splenomegaly and pancytopenia.

(Hairy cell leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Bone marrow failure defined as pancytopenia, secondary to hepatitis.

(Aplastic Anemia due to Hepatitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include fever, lymphadenopathy, hepatomegaly, splenomegaly, and pancytopenia.

(Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, NCI Thesaurus)



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