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POLYCYTHEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polycythemia mean? 

POLYCYTHEMIA (noun)
  The noun POLYCYTHEMIA has 1 sense:

1. a disorder characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of red blood cells in the bloodplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


POLYCYTHEMIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A disorder characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of red blood cells in the blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

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


 Context examples 


Polycythemia has been reported in twelve-percent of patients.

(Metanephric Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is seen in most patients with polycythemia vera and less frequently in other myeloproliferative neoplasms.

(JAK2 Gene Mutation, NCI Thesaurus)

In a minority of cases it is classified as non-physiologic, appearing in the first twenty four hours after birth, and is associated with underlying diseases including hemolytic disorders, polycythemia, and cephalohematoma.

(Neonatal Jaundice, NCI Thesaurus)

Myeloproliferative disorders include chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), polycythemia vera, primary myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythemia, chronic neutrophilic leukemia, and chronic eosinophilic leukemia.

(Myeloproliferative disorder, NCI Dictionary)

Presenting symptoms include hematuria and polycythemia.

(Metanephric Adenofibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

Secondary livedo reticularis may be a cutaneous manifestation of immune system disorders (e.g., lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, cryoglobulinemia, lymphoma, etc), and hematologic disorders (polycythemia vera).

(Livedo Reticularis, NCI Thesaurus)

Chronic myeloproliferative disorders include chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), polycythemia vera, primary myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythemia, chronic neutrophilic leukemia, and chronic eosinophilic leukemia.

(Chronic myeloproliferative disorder, NCI Dictionary)

An allelic variant of the JAK2 gene, which exhibits a dominant gain of function mutation, is associated with several myeloproliferative disorders including polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia and idiopathic myelofibrosis.

(JAK2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The symptoms and signs may include rapidly developing adiposity of the face, neck, and trunk, kyphosis caused by osteoporosis of the spine, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, amenorrhea, hypertrichosis in females, impotence in males, dusky complexion with purple markings, polycythemia, pain in the abdomen and back, and muscular wasting and weakness.

(Cushing syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)



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