Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A diminution in the number of white corpuscles in the blood. Also called hypoleucocytosis.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of leukopenia.

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  • noun an abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count

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Examples

  • (Feied invented this word as well, stealing the suffix from "leucopenia," or low white-blood-cell counts.)

    Slashdot 2009

  • I was told that I also had leucopenia, a dangerously low white blood cell count.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • As a child, I had watched my father suffer through a constellation of what I have since learned were autoimmune illnesses: inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and leucopenia.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • As a child, I had watched my father suffer through a constellation of what I have since learned were autoimmune illnesses: inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and leucopenia.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • I was told that I also had leucopenia, a dangerously low white blood cell count.

    The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008

  • - If severe anaemia or leucopenia develops, stop treatment and replace dapsone with another

    Chapter 4 1993

  • When we discontinued the drug because of leucopenia, rejection started to occur.

    Joseph E. Murray - Nobel Lecture 1990

  • As his leucopenia improved, we re-started the drug which reversed the rejection process and his renal function improved.

    Joseph E. Murray - Nobel Lecture 1990

  • Pixantrone patients also had a higher incidence of leucopenia and numerically more severe cardiac events.

    GEN News Highlights 2010

  • Pixantrone patients also had a higher incidence of leucopenia and numerically more severe cardiac events.

    GEN News Highlights 2010

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