LEUKOPENIA

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abnormal lowering of the white blood cell count

Synonyms:

leucopenia; leukopenia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

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

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

neutropenia (leukopenia in which the decrease is primarily in number of neutrophils (the chief phagocytic leukocyte))

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