Medical Definition of Hereditary pyropoikilocytosis

1. A rare recessive disorder manifested by severe haemolysis, marked poikilocytosis, and a characteristic sensitivity of the red cells to heat-induced fragmentation in vitro; apparently due to a defect in spectrin self-association. Synonym: hereditary pyropoikilocytosis. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hereditary Pyropoikilocytosis

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hereditary methemoglobinaemia
hereditary methemoglobinaemic cyanosis
hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy
hereditary multiple exostoses
hereditary multiple trichoepithelioma
hereditary myokymia
hereditary opalescent dentin
hereditary pancreatitis
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hereditary peroneal nerve dysfunction
hereditary persistence of foetal haemoglobin
hereditary progressive arthro-ophthalmopathy
hereditary pyropoikilocytosis (current term)
hereditary sensory radicular neuropathy
hereditary spherocytosis
hereditary spinal ataxia
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heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis
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