Definition of Lymphopenia

1. Noun. An abnormally small number of lymphocytes in the circulating blood.

Exact synonyms: Lymphocytopenia
Generic synonyms: Blood Disease, Blood Disorder

Definition of Lymphopenia

1. Noun. (medicine) The condition of having n abnormally reduced number of lymphocytes in the blood ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Lymphopenia

1. Reduction in the number of lymphocytes. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lymphopenia

lymphomas
lymphomata
lymphomatoid
lymphomatoid granulomatosis
lymphomatoid papulosis
lymphomatoses
lymphomatosis
lymphomatous
lymphomyeloma
lymphomyxoma
lymphonodi
lymphonodus
lymphopathia
lymphopathia venereum
lymphopathy
lymphopenia (current term)
lymphopenias
lymphopenic
lymphopenic thymic dysplasia
lymphoplasmapheresis
lymphoplasty
lymphopoenic
lymphopoiesis
lymphopoietic
lymphopoietin
lymphoproliferation
lymphoproliferative
lymphoproliferative disorders
lymphoproliferative response
lymphoreticular

Literary usage of Lymphopenia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopic and Chemical Methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"... and Perry has noted the same after the administration of thyroid extract.1 lymphopenia.—lymphopenia is ..."

2. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopical and Chemical by Charles Edmund Simon (1904)
"1 lymphopenia.—lymphopenia is notably observed in the acute infections which are associated with an increase of the polynuclear neutrophiles, and is almost ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Some of the animals treated with 6- mercaptopurine developed moderate lymphopenia and marked leukopenia during the study. However, there was no good ..."

4. Generalized Pain by Norbert Ortner, Francis Joseph Rebman (1922)
"... in severe cases of leucopenia), absence of lymphocytosis (nearly always with lymphopenia in sepsis). So far as special localization in the joints is ..."

5. The Biology of the Blood-cells with a Glossary of Hæmatological Terms: For by Oskar Cameron Gruner (1914)
"lymphopenia occurs during the digestion of fats ... draw a distinction between the finer varieties of lymphocytosis and lymphopenia, owing to lack of data. ..."

6. Report of the Surgeon Generals Workshop on Children With HIV Infection And edited by Benjamin K. Silverman, Anthony Waddell (1987)
"... decreased T-helper/T-suppressor (T4/T8) ratio, and absolute lymphopenia. Other causes of these abnormalities must be excluded. Subclass C - Not tested. ..."

7. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1907)
"... at first, a lymphopenia and, afterwards, a lymphocytosis, and its injection was followed by hypertrophy of the lymphatic glands. VIII. ..."

8. American Journal of Roentgenology by American Radium Society (1921)
"was that if immune rats were given a dose of .r-rays sufficiently large to cause and maintain a marked lymphopenia, then such immune animals ..."

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