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EOSINOPHILIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A symptom of allergic states; increased eosinophils in the blood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("eosinophilia" is a kind of...):
symptom ((medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease)
Context examples:
Eosinophilia is often a response to infection or allergens (substances that cause an allergic response).
(Eosinophilia, NCI Dictionary)
A syndrome characterized by persistent eosinophilia, for which no underlying cause can be found, and which is associated with signs of organ involvement and dysfunction.
(Hypereosinophilic Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
This rearrangement was observed in one patient with refractory anemia with excess blasts with basophilia, one patient with acute myelogenous leukemia with eosinophilia, and one patient with acute eosinophilic leukemia
(ETV6/ACSL6 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
It is characterized by an immense number of mites and hyperkeratotic crusted lesions, and is usually accompanied by lymphadenopathy and eosinophilia.
(Norwegian Scabies, NCI Thesaurus)
Signs and symptoms include pruritus, headache, fever, arthralgias, and eosinophilia.
(Mansonelliasis, NCI Thesaurus)
A chromosomal translocation t(5;12)(q31;p13) of this gene with the ETV6 gene is associated with myelodysplastic syndrome with basophilia, acute myelogenous leukemia with eosinophilia, and acute eosinophilic leukemia.
(ACSL6 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
In a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia with eosinophilia, this rearrangement fused exons 1-9 of the ACSL6 gene to either intron 2 or exon 3 of the ETV6 gene and does not produce a fusion protein.
(ACSL6/ETV6 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
It results in eosinophilia.
(B Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia with t(5;14)(q31;q32); IL3-IGH, NCI Thesaurus)
