Definition of "neutropenic" [neutropenic]

• Having neutropenia. (adjective)
• Characterized by, or concerning, neutropenia. (adjective)

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• "For a large part of the past two years Lucy has been neutropenic, meaning she has no natural resistance to infection."
• "She was feverish and neutropenic from the chemotherapy, meaning that she had no power to fight whatever infection it was she had inside."
• "Unfortunately, there is a time when you are fighting cancer that you become neutropenic, i.e., you have no white blood cells to fight off infection."