NEUTROPENIA

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An abnormal decrease in the number of circulating neutrophils. It may be cyclic in nature. See also AGRANULOCYTOSIS. Neutropenia can be acute or chronic depending on the duration of the illness. A patient has chronic neutropenia if the condition lasts for longer than three months. It is sometimes used interchangeably with the term leukopenia ("deficit in the number of white blood cells"), as neutrophils are the most abundant leukocytes, but neutropenia is more properly considered a subset of leukopenia as a whole.

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