NOUN
- an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes
How To Use agranulocytosis In A Sentence
- Routine monitoring of white cell counts remains controversial, but results of one study showed that close monitoring of white cell counts allowed for earlier detection of agranulocytosis.
- Bute can induce blood disorders, including aplastic anaemia, leukopenia and agranulocytosis ? Times, Sunday Times
- Bone marrow biopsy and other hematologic tests were consistent with agranulocytosis and marked erythroid hypoplasia of the megakaryocyte type.
- She, wrestling with long words like agranulocytosis and lymphosarcoma, could see that the patients liked him. A Kiss For Julie
- In 1956, Rolf Kostmann, a Swedish pediatrician, described an autosomal recessive disorder that he called infantile genetic agranulocytosis - which is now called severe congenital neutropenia. Medlogs - Recent stories
- Bute can induce blood disorders, including aplastic anaemia, leukopenia and agranulocytosis ? Times, Sunday Times
- The fact that the granulocytes may be practically doubled in number within from six to eight hours after a single injection, recommends its use in many of those diseased states accompanied by granulocytopenia, such as pneumonia, influenza, agranulocytosis of Schultz, and even in some instances post-operatively. William P. Murphy - Nobel Lecture
- The latter one leads to agranulocytosis; hence monitoring blood investigations is necessary.
- None of the patients on the drug developed agranulocytosis.
- When reviewers repeated the trial years later, in a larger population, they found the incidence of this agranulocytosis was much lower than previously thought.