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pancytopenia
[pan″si-to-pe´ne-ah]abnormal depression of all the cellular elements of the blood.
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pan·cy·to·pe·ni·a
(pan'sī-tō-pē'nē-ă),Pronounced reduction in the number of erythrocytes, all types of leukocytes, and the blood platelets in the circulating blood.
[pan- + G. kytos, cell, + penia, poverty]
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pancytopenia
(păn′sī-tə-pē′nē-ə)n.
An abnormally low level of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets in the circulating blood.
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pancytopenia
Hematology A global ↓ of 'blood cells' with hypoplasia or aplasia of hematopoietic precursors in BM–eg, hypoplastic myelodysplasia Etiology Aplastic anemia–drug-related, especially in chemotherapy, RT, toxins, BM replacement by hematopoietic, lymphoproliferative and metastatic CA, storage diseases, osteopetrosis, myelofibrosis, hypersplenism–congestive splenomegaly, hematopoietic malignancy, storage diseases, sarcoidosis, malaria, kala-azar, infection–eg, fungemia, septicemia, TB, megaloblastic anemia. See Fanconi's disease.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
pan·cy·to·pe·ni·a
(pan'sī-tō-pē'nē-ă)Pronounced reduction in the number of erythrocytes, all types of leukocytes, and the blood platelets in the circulating blood.
[G. pan-, all + G. kytos, cell, + penia, poverty]
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pancytopenia
An abnormal decrease in the numbers of the cellular elements in the blood and of the PLATELETS.Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005
pan·cy·to·pe·ni·a
(pan'sī-tō-pē'nē-ă)Pronounced reduction in number of erythrocytes, all types of leukocytes, and blood platelets in the circulating blood.
[G. pan-, all + G. kytos, cell, + penia, poverty]
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