myelodysplastic syndrome

English

blood smear of a patient with a myelodysplastic syndrome: red blood cells showing marked poikilocytosis, in part related to post-splenectomy status, and central a hypogranular neutrophil with a pseudo-Pelger-Huet nucleus.

Alternative forms

• MDS

Noun

myelodysplastic syndrome (plural myelodysplastic syndromes)

1. (medicine) one of a group of hematological conditions that cause ineffective production (or dysplasia) of all blood cells but the lymphocytic lineage

Synonyms

• myelodysplasia