Medical Term:
blood crisis
Definition:
- the appearance of a large number of nucleated red blood cells in the peripheral blood, accompanied by reticulocytosis and occurring in “exhausted” bone marrow in pernicious anemia and in hemolytic icterus;
- a suddenly appearing leukocytosis, indicating a change for the better in the course of a grave blood disease.
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