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LEUCOPENIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count
Synonyms:
leucopenia; leukopenia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("leucopenia" is a kind of...):
blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leucopenia"):
neutropenia (leukopenia in which the decrease is primarily in number of neutrophils (the chief phagocytic leukocyte))