HISTIOCYTOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does histiocytosis mean? 

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

1. a blood disease characterized by an abnormal multiplication of macrophages

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HISTIOCYTOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A blood disease characterized by an abnormal multiplication of macrophages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "histiocytosis"):

Hand-Schuller-Christian disease; Schuller-Christian disease (inflammatory histiocytosis associated with disturbance of cholesterol metabolism; occurs chiefly in young children and is characterized by cystic defects of the skull and diabetes insipidus)

 Context examples 

Langerhans cell histiocytosis is most common in children and young adults.

(Langerhans cell histiocytosis, NCI Dictionary)

A multifocal, multisystem form of Langerhans-cell histiocytosis.

(Letterer-Siwe Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Acute, disseminated, rapidly progressive form of Langerhans-cell histiocytosis.

(Letterer-Siwe Disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

In the past, cases of anaplastic large cells lymphoma were called malignant histiocytosis.

(Malignant Histiocytosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign histiocytic tumor that occurs during childhood; it is distinct from Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

(Juvenile Xanthogranuloma, NCI Thesaurus)

The most benign clinical form of Langerhans-cell histiocytosis (HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL), which involves localized nodular lesions of the gastric mucosa, small intestine, bones, lungs, or skin, with infiltration by eosinophils.

(Eosinophilic Granuloma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A very rare, multisystem non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis that predominantly affects adults.

(Erdheim-Chester Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

A multifocal, unisystem form of Langerhans-cell histiocytosis.

(Hand-Schuller-Christian Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

This category includes the histiocytic sarcoma, Langerhans cell histiocytosis, Langerhans cell sarcoma, interdigitading dendritic cell sarcoma/tumor, follicular dendritic cell sarcoma/tumor, and dendritic cell sarcoma, not otherwise specified.

(Histiocytic and Dendritic Cell Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

A clinical variant of Langerhans cell histiocytosis characterised by unifocal involvement of a bone (most often), skin, or lung.

(Eosinophilic Granuloma, NCI Thesaurus)