AGRANULOCYTOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agranulocytosis mean? 

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

1. an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGRANULOCYTOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

agranulocytosis; agranulosis; granulocytopenia

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

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

Derivation:

agranulocytic (relating to the blood disorder of agranulocytosis)

 Context examples 

Also called congenital neutropenia, genetic infantile agranulocytosis, infantile genetic agranulocytosis, Kostmann disease, and Kostmann syndrome.

(Kostmann neutropenia, NCI Dictionary)

Also called congenital neutropenia, genetic infantile agranulocytosis, infantile genetic agranulocytosis, Kostmann disease, and Kostmann neutropenia.

(Kostmann syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

Also called congenital neutropenia, genetic infantile agranulocytosis, infantile genetic agranulocytosis, Kostmann neutropenia, and Kostmann syndrome.

(Kostmann disease, NCI Dictionary)

Also called congenital neutropenia, genetic infantile agranulocytosis, Kostmann disease, Kostmann neutropenia, and Kostmann syndrome.

(Infantile genetic agranulocytosis, NCI Dictionary)

Also called congenital neutropenia, infantile genetic agranulocytosis, Kostmann disease, Kostmann neutropenia, and Kostmann syndrome.

(Genetic infantile agranulocytosis, NCI Dictionary)

Also called genetic infantile agranulocytosis, infantile genetic agranulocytosis, Kostmann disease, Kostmann neutropenia, and Kostmann syndrome.

(Congenital neutropenia, NCI Dictionary)