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Definition of Leucopenia
1. Noun. An abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count.
Generic synonyms: Blood Disease, Blood Disorder
Specialized synonyms: Neutropenia
Definition of Leucopenia
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of leukopenia) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Leucopenia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Leucopenia
Literary usage of Leucopenia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"leucopenia, often pronounced, is not uncommon in chlorosis and in ... A well-marked
leucopenia may be expected in about one-fourth of all cases of chlorosis ..."
2. Clinical Diagnosis: A Text-book of Clinical Microscopy and Clinical by Charles Phillips Emerson (1908)
"leucopenia may result from the reduction in one group of cells or from a ...
Below 5000 cells per cubic millimetre is usually considered a leucopenia. ..."
3. The Clinical Pathology of the Blood of Domesticated Animals by Samuel Howard Burnett (1917)
"With the reduction in the total number there may even be an increased number of
some variety. leucopenia occurs in a variety of conditions, as fasting, ..."
4. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1900)
"... EXCRETION IN A CASE OF leucopenia. BY ROBERT HUTCHISON, MD (Edin.), MRCP,
Assistant Physician to the London Hospital, AND JJR MACLEOD, MB, ..."
5. The Morphology of Normal and Pathological Blood by George A. Buckmaster (1906)
"LECTURE V LEUCOCYTOSIS, leucopenia, ... or leucopenia. In leucocytosis, from
whatever cause ... leucopenia ..."
6. Clinical Guide by George Frederick Laidlaw (1913)
"Late tests: Widal, leucopenia, culture from feces and urine. leucopenia.
Uncomplicated typhoid fever differs from many other types of infection in its low ..."
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