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-penia- [singular], -penias [plural], -penic, pen-, penia- (Greek > Modern Latin: abnormal reduction, decrease in, insufficient, deficiency. Originally, the meaning was poverty, need; sometimes it is erroneously or incorrectly rendered as -poenia).


calcipenia, calcipenic:
A condition in which there is an insufficient amount of calcium in the tissues and fluids of the body.
chloropenia:
A deficiency in chloride.
cytoglucopenia:
An intracellular deficiency of glucose.
cytopenia:
A reduction, i.e., hypocytosis, or a lack of cellular elements in circulating blood.
eosinopenia:
The presence of eosinophils in an abnormally small number in the peripheral bloodstream; hypoeosinophilia.
erythroblastopenia:
A primary deficiency of erythroblasts in bone marrow, seen in aplastic anemia.
erythrocytopenia, erythropenia:
Deficiency in the number of red blood cells.
fibrinogenopenia:
A concentration of fibrinogen in the blood that is less than what is considered to be normal.
glucopenia:
An abnormally small concentration of glucose in circulating blood, i.e., less than the minimum of the normal range.; hypoglycemia.
glycopenia:
A deficiency of any or all sugars in an organ or tissue.
granulocytopenia, granulopenia, hypogranulocytosis:
A condition characterized by an abnormally small number of granulocytes (granular leukocytes) in the blood.
hematopenia:
Deficiency of blood, including hypocytosis or cytopenia.
hydropenia:
A reduction or deprivation of water.
kaliopenia:
A deficiency or insufficiency of potassium in the body.
leukocytopenia, leukopenia, leukopenic, leucopenic:
The antithesis of leukocytosis; any situation in which the total number of leukocytes in circulating blood that is less than normal, the lower limit of which is generally regarded as 4000­5000 per cu mm.
lipopenia:
An abnormally small amount, or a deficiency, of lipids in the body.
lymphopenia, lymphopenic, lymphocytopenia:
A reduction, relative or absolute, in the number of lymphocytes in circulating blood.
monocytopenia, monopenia:
Diminution in the number of monocytes in circulating blood.
neutropenia, neutropenic, neutrophilopenia:
The presence of abnormally small numbers of neutrophils (mature white blood cells) in circulating blood.
osteopenia:
1. Decreased calcification or density of bone; a descriptive term applicable to all skeletal systems in which such a condition is noted; it carries no implication about causality.
2. Reduced bone mass due to inadequate osteoid synthesis.
pancytopenia:
1. The pronounced reduction in the number of erythrocytes, all types of white blood cells, and the blood platelets in the circulating blood.
2. A condition in which the blood shows a relative deficiency of all three cellular components (erythrocytes, leucocytes, and platelets).
panleukopenia:
A highly contagious and fatal disease of cats, particularly young cats, caused by feline panleukopenia virus, a member of the family Parvoviridae, and manifested by severe leukopenia, prostration, fever, vomiting and diarrhea.
penalgesia:
The reduction in the number of pain and touch spots in trigeminal neuralgia.
peniagenous:
Induced or caused by poverty.
peniaphobia:
A dread or morbid fear of poverty.
phosphopenia, phosphorpenia:
Low serum phosphate levels.
prothrombinopenia:
Abnormally small amounts of prothrombin in circulating blood; hypoprothrombinemia.
reticulocytopenia, reticulopenia:
Paucity of reticulocytes in the blood. The reticulocytes are young red blood cells that become more numerous during the process of active blood regeneration.
sideropenia, sideropenic:
An abnormally low concentration of serum iron in the blood.
thrombocytopenia, thrombocytopenic, thrombopenia:
A reduced number of platelets in the blood.