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Agranulocytosis
is a
medical
condition where there are very few
granulocytes
(a kind of
white blood cell
) in the
blood
. It is a type of severe and dangerous
leukopenia
(a condition of very low number of white blood cells). If the agranulocytosis is because of a lack of
neutrophils
(called
neutropenia
), it is especially bad.
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The word agranulocytosis comes from the Greek "a-", meaning "without", the word "granulocyte", referring to a type of blood cell with granules in the
cytoplasm
, and "-osis", meaning "abnormal condition".
