THROMBOCYTOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thrombocytosis mean? 

• THROMBOCYTOSIS (noun)
  The noun THROMBOCYTOSIS has 1 sense:

1. increase in the number of platelets in the blood which tends to cause clots to form; associated with many neoplasms and chronic infections and other diseases

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THROMBOCYTOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Increase in the number of platelets in the blood which tends to cause clots to form; associated with many neoplasms and chronic infections and other diseases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("thrombocytosis" 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 

It is characterized by sustained thrombocytosis in the blood, increased numbers of large, mature megakaryocytes in the bone marrow, and episodes of thrombosis and/or hemorrhage.

(Essential thrombocythemia, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called essential thrombocytosis.

(Essential thrombocythemia, NCI Dictionary)

Comment: Intended to encompass diseases more closely related to human myelodysplastic syndromes than to human myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative or myeloproliferative diseases; Disorder is not a non-lymphoid leukemia; In the peripheral blood mice exhibit: A. Neutropenia (+/- anemia, +/- thrombocytopenia) or B. Thrombocytopenia without either leukocytosis or erythrocytosis or C. Anemia without either leukocytosis or thrombocytosis; Mice exhibit a defect in maturation of non-lymphoid hematopoietic cells as evidenced by any combination of: A. Dysgranulopoiesis, dyserythropoiesis, and/or dysplastic megakaryocytes or B. greater or equal to 20% non-lymphoid immature forms/blasts in bone marrow and/or spleen

(Myeloid Dysplasia of Mouse, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Mice exhibit increased non-lymphoid hematopoietic cells as evidenced by any combination of; A: Erythrocytosis, leukocytosis of myeloid cells, and/or thrombocytosis/circulating megakaryocytes B: Increased non-lymphoid hematopoietic cells in spleen and/or bone marrow.

(Mouse Myeloid Proliferation, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)