agranulocytosis
- n an acute blood disorder (often caused by radiation or drug therapy) characterized by severe reduction in granulocytes
- Four of the five persons hospitalized thus far for ginseng-related agranulocytosis (three in San Francisco and one in Minneapolis) came close to death; another San Franciscan .
- But the risk of agranulocytosis is terrifying.
- Then agranulocytosis struck, and he had to be taken off the drug.