aplastic anemia

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noun Pathology.

severe anemia due to destruction or depressed functioning of the bone marrow, usually resulting from bone cancer, radiation, or the toxic effects of certain drugs or chemicals.

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Origin of aplastic anemia

First recorded in 1930–35; a-⁶ + -plastic

Words nearby aplastic anemia

aplanetic, aplanogamete, aplanospore, aplasia, aplastic, aplastic anemia, aplenty, aplite, aplomb, apmt., apnea

How to use aplastic anemia in a sentence

When I was a medical student in my native Oklahoma, I treated a young woman with a calm smile and severe anemia.
You Probably Shouldn’t Try to Lose 20 Pounds by Eating Clay|Kent Sepkowitz|June 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But no one could figure out the cause of her anemia until someone asked her more carefully about her diet.
You Probably Shouldn’t Try to Lose 20 Pounds by Eating Clay|Kent Sepkowitz|June 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Its relationship to anemia, however, is more complex than the cause-and-effect sequence I learned in medical school.
You Probably Shouldn’t Try to Lose 20 Pounds by Eating Clay|Kent Sepkowitz|June 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
MDS is a relatively rare condition that can lead to a depletion of red or white blood cells, anemia, heavy bleeding.
How Robin Roberts’ Breast Cancer Treatment Could Cause More Cancer|Casey Schwartz|June 12, 2012|DAILY BEAST

The three anti-anemia drugs have cost the government a reported $60 billion since 1989.
Medicare's Blood Drugs|Eve Conant|November 8, 2011|DAILY BEAST
It occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
In pernicious anemia they are always greatly diminished, and an increase should exclude the diagnosis of this disease.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
(b) In secondary anemia plaques are generally increased, although sometimes decreased.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Megaloblasts are found in pernicious anemia, and with extreme rarity in any other condition.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Pathologically, normoblasts occur in severe symptomatic anemia, leukemia, and pernicious anemia.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd

Scientific definitions for aplastic anemia

aplastic anemia

[ ā-plăs′tĭk ]

A form of anemia in which the capacity of the bone marrow to generate red blood cells is defective. Aplastic anemia may be caused by bone marrow disease or exposure to toxic agents, such as radiation, chemicals, or drugs.

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