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What does aplastic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (pathology) Pertaining to aplasia.
  2. (pathology) Refers to the inability of the body to create new cells, such that tissue cannot grow or regenerate.
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In addition to the severe anemia, aplastic crises also may lead to decreased white cell or platelet counts.
Infection can produce severe anaemia and an aplastic crisis in people with sickle-cell anaemia or other abnormalities of haemoglobin.
Hemic and lymphatic: Decreased serum fibrinogen, pancytopenia, purpura, thrombocytopenia, leucopenia, anemia, aplastic anemia.
Human parvovirus B19 infection is responsible for 80 percent of aplastic crises.
Recovery from aplastic anemia occurred 4 months after the discontinuation of suspected myelotoxic drugs and use of hematinics.
After five or six days in hospital Kim was diagnosed with severe aplastic anaemia which is a failure of the bone marrow to produce blood cells and platelets.

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