NEUTROPENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neutropenia mean? 

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

1. leukopenia in which the decrease is primarily in number of neutrophils (the chief phagocytic leukocyte)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEUTROPENIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leukopenia in which the decrease is primarily in number of neutrophils (the chief phagocytic leukocyte)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

leucopenia; leukopenia (an abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count)

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

cyclic neutropenia (neutropenia that occurs periodically)

 Context examples 

As an alkylating agent, dimethylbusulfan induces neutropenia and has been shown to exhibit antitumor effects in some animal models.

(Dimethylmyleran, NCI Thesaurus)

Daptomycin is also being studied in the treatment of fever and neutropenia (an abnormal decrease in the number of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell) in patients with cancer.

(Daptomycin, NCI Dictionary)

Therefore, this agent may decrease the duration and incidence of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia.

(Long-acting Granulocyte Colony-stimulating Factor Analog SPI-2012, NCI Thesaurus)

Neutropenia associated with fever, the latter indicating the presence of an infection.

(Febrile neutropenia, NCI Thesaurus)

Therefore, this agent may prevent the duration and incidence of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia.

(Lipegfilgrastim, NCI Thesaurus)

GM-CSF modulates the proliferation and differentiation of a variety of hematopoietic progenitor cells with some specificity towards stimulation of leukocyte production and may reverse treatment-induced neutropenias.

(GVAX Lung Cancer Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients often present with anemia, neutropenia, and thrombocytopenia.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with Maturation, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Mutations in this gene generate variant alleles that are a cause of Kostmann syndrome, or severe congenital neutropenia.

(CSF3R wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Cubicin is also being studied in the treatment of fever and neutropenia (an abnormal decrease in the number of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell) in patients with cancer.

(Cubicin, NCI Dictionary)

Signs and symptoms include cardiomyopathy, neutropenia, muscle weakness and atrophy, growth delay, cardiolipin deficiency and 3-methylglutaconic aciduria.

(Barth Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)