ACANTHOCYTOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acanthocytosis mean? 

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

1. the presence of acanthocytes in the blood stream (as in abetalipoproteinemia)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACANTHOCYTOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The presence of acanthocytes in the blood stream (as in abetalipoproteinemia)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("acanthocytosis" is a kind of...):

blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)

 Context examples 

A group of neurologic disorders associated with acanthocytosis on the peripheral blood smear.

(Neuroacanthocytosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include failure to thrive, diarrhea, steatorrhea, acanthocytosis and ataxia.

(Abetalipoproteinemia, NCI Thesaurus)