LEUCOPENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leucopenia mean? 

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

1. an abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEUCOPENIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

leucopenia; leukopenia

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))

 Context examples 

Signs and symptoms include localized lymphadenitis, fever, and leucopenia.

(Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis, NCI Thesaurus)

These polyclonal antisera produced by immunization of horses with mice splenocytes exhibit some general anti-leucocyte activity as well as some antiplatelet activity and may produce varying degrees of leucopenia or thrombocytopenia; the primary effect of anti-lymphocyte antisera is to reduce the T-lymphocyte count.

(Horse Anti-mouse Anti-lymphocyte Serum, NCI Thesaurus)