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Polycythemia — Classification and external resources Packed cell volume diagram. ICD 10 D … Wikipedia
polycythemia — [päl΄i sī thē′mē ə] n. 〚 POLY + CYT(O) + HEMIA〛 an abnormal increase in the number and concentration of circulating red blood corpuscles * * * pol·y·cy·the·mi·a (pŏl ē sī thēʹmē ə) n. A condition marked by an abnormally large number … Universalium
Polycythemia — The presence of too many red blood cells. Polycythemia formally exists when the hemoglobin, red blood cell (RBC) count and total RBC volume are both above normal. For example, the percentage of red blood cells in whole blood (hematocrit) in… … Medical dictionary
stress polycythemia — a chronic type of relative polycythemia, seen most often in middle aged, mildly obese males who are active, anxiety prone, and hypertensive, occurring without the characteristic symptoms associated with polycythemia vera, i.e., without… … Medical dictionary
benign polycythemia — chronic relative polycythemia stress p … Medical dictionary
absolute polycythemia — an increase in red cell mass caused by a sustained overactivity of the erythroid component of the bone marrow, which may occur as a compensatory physiologic response to tissue hypoxia (see secondary p.), or as the principal manifestation of… … Medical dictionary
spurious polycythemia — 1. relative p. 2. stress p … Medical dictionary
blood disease — Introduction any disease of the blood, involving the red blood cells (erythrocytes (erythrocyte)), white blood cells (leukocytes (leukocyte)), or platelets (platelet) (thrombocytes) or the tissues in which these elements are formed the bone … Universalium
pseudopolycythemia — pseu·do·poly·cy·the·mia (soo″do pol″e si theґme ə) 1. stress polycythemia. 2. relative polycythemia … Medical dictionary
Radiophosphortherapie — Die Radiophosphortherapie ist eine Radionuklidtherapie bei der Polycythaemia vera und der essentiellen Thrombozythämie. Es wird das Radionuklid 32Phosphor verwendet. Die Methode gilt als Alternative zu den herkömmlichen Behandlungsverfahren –… … Deutsch Wikipedia
