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Definition: Neutropenia |
NeutropeniaNoun1. Leukopenia in which the decrease is primarily in number of neutrophils (the chief phagocytic leukocyte). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | An abnormal decrease in the number of neutrophils, a type of white blood cell. (references) |
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The most common cause of neutropenia is decreased production in the bone marrow, which can be caused by hereditary disorders, cancer, certain medications, radiation, and B12 or folate deficiency. It may be an acute or a long-standing condition.
Neutropenia can also be caused by increased destruction of white blood cells. This can occur in severe infection and in some autoimmune disorders.
A third type of neutropenia is caused by sequestration and margination of white blood cells. This is seen in hemodialysis.
Cyclical neutropenia is when the number of neutrophils in the blood vary over time in a cyclical manner. The period is generally from 3-4 weeks, and is unrelated to the menstrual cycle in women.
There is usually a mild neutropenia in viral infections.
Neutropenia may also just be part of a general pancytopenia, where all the blood's cells are low in number.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Neutropenia."
Crosswords: Neutropenia |
| English words defined with "neutropenia": cyclic neutropenia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "neutropenia": Fungemia ♦ Hematopoietic Cell Growth Factors ♦ Platelet Activating Factor. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Neutropenia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (neutropenia), Portuguese (neutropenia). |
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Health | Very low white blood cell counts (autoimmune neutropenia), creating a risk for bacterial infection. (references) | |
In addition, these procedures may increase the risk of septicemia in patients with severe neutropenia. (references) | ||
Oral ulceration may be associated with the underlying cancer, particularly acute leukemias, and with severe neutropenia from any cause. (references) | ||
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| "Neutropenia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neutropenia" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
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Expression using "neutropenia": cyclic neutropenia. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
neutropenia | 203 |
cyclic neutropenia | 21 |
febrile neutropenia | 15 |
autoimmune neutropenia | 4 |
chronic neutropenia | 4 |
neutropenia symptom | 3 |
cyclical neutropenia | 3 |
neutropenia treatment | 2 |
cause neutropenia | 2 |
benign chronic neutropenia | 2 |
fever neutropenia | 2 |
child neutropenia | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "neutropenia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 嗜中性白细胞减少症. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | neutropeni. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | neutropenie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | neutropénie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Neutropenie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | neutropenia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eutropenianay neutropenia. (various references) neutropenia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-n-o-p-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: peritonea. | |
-3 letters: anointer, antiporn, aperient, atropine, eruption, neutrino, outpreen, preunion, preunite, reanoint, unornate. | |
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| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-n-n-o-p-r-t-u" | |
+2 letters: equiponderant. | |
+3 letters: nontherapeutic. | |
+4 letters: importunateness, phenylketonuria. | |
+5 letters: counterespionage, pertinaciousness, phenylketonurias, pronunciamentoes, superfecundation, unprofitableness. | |
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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0075 0074 0072 006F 0070 0065 006E 0069 0061 |
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