cytopenian.
/ˌsʌɪtə(ʊ)ˈpiːnɪə/, U.S. /ˌsaɪdəˈpiniə/ Medicine.
Reduction of the normal number of cells (of one or more types), esp. in the blood; an instance of this.
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1906 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 132 929 There was a marked oligocythemia, but excepting this cytopenia there were no changes in the red or white cells.
1934 Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. 29 118 The demonstrative chromatolysis..is put where it belongs as the form of degeneration typical of the cortical cells.., that underlies the cytopenia of amentia, of dementia, and of dysmentia.
1948 Postgraduate Med. 4 512 (title) Congestive splenomegaly with cytopenia.
1992 Internat. Clin. Psychopharmacol. 7 96/2 Laboratory abnormalities included..at least one of the following cytopenias: leukopenia; thrombocytopenia; anaemia with haematocrit <0.40; or absolute lymphopenia.
2007 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 23 May 23 Patients using the medicine..also reported various blood deficiencies known as cytopenias that in some cases also led to death.
Derivatives
cytoˈpenic adj. affected with cytopenia; of or relating to cytopenia.
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1944 Science 8 Sept. 224/1 Xanthopterin in our hands has invariably shown beneficial effects on cytopenic monkeys.
1980 Toxicol. & Appl. Pharmacol. 54 323/1 The cytopenic effects of benzene exposure have been readily reproduced in animals.
2004 Exper. Hematol. 32 30/2 Transfusions were needed mainly in patients who were cytopenic at study entry.
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