CYTOPENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cytopenia mean? 

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

1. a deficiency of some cellular element of the blood

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CYTOPENIA (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)

 Context examples 

A monoclonal antibody that is being studied in the treatment of adult T-cell leukemia and in the treatment of cytopenia (low blood cell count).

(Dacliximab, NCI Dictionary)

Cytopenia caused by autoantibodies against the red blood cells, neutrophils, and/or platelets.

(Autoimmune Cytopenia, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients often present with severe cytopenia.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Multilineage Dysplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

A system for scoring myelodysplasia syndrome progression risk, based on a combination of: percentage of blast cells in the bone marrow, the presence and severity of specific cytogenetic abnormalities, and the number of cytopenias in the peripheral blood.

(International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS) for Myelodysplastic Syndromes, NCI Thesaurus)