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CYTOPENIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deficiency of some cellular element of the blood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("cytopenia" is a kind of...):
blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cytopenia"):
haematocytopenia; hematocytopenia (an abnormally low number of red blood cells in the blood)
pancytopenia (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)
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