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What does polycythemia mean?

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  1. (medicine) A rare disorder in which the bone marrow produces an abnormally large amount of blood cells, often red blood cells.
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In patients with chronic hypoxemic lung disease, polycythemia has been shown to impair the vasodilator response to acetylcholine.
Dr Alessandro Vannucchi will present the promising results of a Phase III trial for polycythemia vera patients.
Other symptoms of polycythemia vera include headaches, transient neurologic or ocular complaints, and paresthesias.
Paraneoplastic erythrocytosis is distinguished from polycythemia vera by the absence of pancytosis and splenomegaly.
Absolute polycythemia, when the cause is known, is called erythrocytosis.
Lastly, polycythemia can develop in the presence of certain types of tumours and as the result of the action of adrenocortical secretions.

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