pancytopenia

pancytopenia /pan·cy·to·pe·nia/ (-sit-ah-pe´ne-ah) abnormal depression of all the cellular elements of the blood.

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pan·cy·to·pe·ni·a (pns-t-pn-)

n.

A pronounced reduction in all of the formed elements of the blood.

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pancytopenia

abnormal depression of all the cellular elements of the blood. Results from the depression of activity of bone marrow, spleen and lymph nodes such as occurs in radiation injury and a number of poisonings, e.g. Pteridium aquilinum, trichlorethylene extracted soybean meal, nitrofurans and stachybotrytoxicosis.

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myelophthisic pancytopenia

resulting from loss of bone marrow function.

tropical canine pancytopenia

see canine ehrlichiosis.