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Definition of Leukopenia
1. Noun. An abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count.
Generic synonyms: Blood Disease, Blood Disorder
Specialized synonyms: Neutropenia
Definition of Leukopenia
1. Noun. (medicine) an abnormally low count of leukocytes, or white blood cells, in the blood ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leukopenia
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Leukopenia
1. Abnormal decrease in the number of white blood cells. (16 Dec 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leukopenia
Literary usage of Leukopenia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pathological physiology of internal diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"leukopenia may also be produced by benzol and by exposure to the x-rays^ both of
... Finally, certain forms of leukopenia are due to other causes than a ..."
2. Surgical diagnosis by Daniel Nathan Eisendrath (1907)
"leukopenia, LEUKOCYTOSIS, AND HYPERLEUKOCYTOSIS. By the term leukopenia is
understood a state of the blood in which there is a decrease in the number of ..."
3. Functional Pathology of Internal Diseases by Albion Walter Hewlett (1916)
"Pathogensis of leukopenia Injury to Formative Tissues.—The leukocytes which wander
into the immediate neighborhood of the infecting organisms often .succumb ..."
4. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1916)
"leukopenia This is a term used to designate a reduction in the normal number of
leukocytes. A leukocyte count of 5000 would represent a slight leukopenia; ..."
5. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"leukopenia This is a term used to designate a reduction in the normal number of
leukocytes. A leukocyte count of 5000 would represent a slight leukopenia; ..."
6. A Manual of clinical diagnosis by means of laboratory methods, for students by Charles Edmund Simon (1902)
"... (leukopenia).—In the foregoing pages it has repeatedly been pointed out that
a qualitative diminution in the number of the leucocytes may occur under ..."
7. Histology of the Blood: Normal and Pathological by Paul Ehrlich, Adolf Lazarus, W. Myers, German Sims Woodhead (1900)
"We have mentioned this case here, because it is remarkable as an extreme leukopenia
never before observed. An explanation however is impossible owing to the ..."
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