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Definition of Polycythemic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polycythemic
Literary usage of Polycythemic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"HAM/JCR strain female mice were made polycythemic by exposure to hypoxia for 2
weeks (0.42 atm for 22 hr/day). Groups of five mice were injected sc with ..."
2. The Medical Clinics of North America by Michael C. Fiore, Stephen S. Entman, Charles B. Rush (1920)
"3. The oxygen unsaturation was normal. As a result Lundsgaard proposes to call
the color of the skin in polycythemic patients ..."
3. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1921)
"... pernicious anemia, chlorosis, hemochromatosis, polycythemic splenomegaly.
(4) In cirrhosis of the liver: syphilitic, alcoholic, hypertrophic of ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"polycythemic patients when they contract infection or are subjected to extra
strain are found below par and without the resistance to withstand serious ..."
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