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HISTIOCYTOSIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A blood disease characterized by an abnormal multiplication of macrophages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("histiocytosis" is a kind of...):

blood disease; blood disorder (a disease or disorder of the blood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "histiocytosis"):

Hand-Schuller-Christian disease; Schuller-Christian disease (inflammatory histiocytosis associated with disturbance of cholesterol metabolism; occurs chiefly in young children and is characterized by cystic defects of the skull and diabetes insipidus)

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It can be considered a higher grade variant of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) and it can present de novo or progress from antecedent LCH.

(Langerhans Cell Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Representative examples include Langerhans cell histiocytosis, histiocytic sarcoma, and follicular dendritic cell sarcoma.

(Central Nervous System Histiocytic and Dendritic Cell Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called Langerhans cell histiocytosis.

(LCH, NCI Dictionary)

Langerhans cell histiocytosis may also affect the pituitary gland (which makes hormones that control other glands and many body functions, especially growth).

(Langerhans cell histiocytosis, NCI Dictionary)