dysgranulopoiesis

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Etymology edit

dys- +‎ granulopoiesis

Noun edit

dysgranulopoiesis (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) The abnormal condition in which granulopoiesis does not take place properly.
    • 2015 July 8, Aleksandra Butrym et al., “Polish experience of lenalidomide in the treatment of lower risk myelodysplastic syndrome with isolated del(5q)”, in BMC Cancer[1], volume 15, →DOI:
      In the paper by Patnaik et al., it was revealed that age, transfusion needs at diagnosis and dysgranulopoiesis were independent factors affecting survival reduction in patients with chromosome 5 long arm deletion syndrome.