Myelotoxicity

The myelotoxicity is the (health) damaging effect mostly of chemical substances and / or physical factors on the bone marrow and leads to myelosuppression .

The term is a combination of ancient Greek μυελός , myelos , "marrow" or "spinal cord" and toxicity .

The adjective for this is called myelotoxic .

What is meant is not damage to the spinal cord , which is referred to as myelopathy , but to the bone marrow.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willibald Pschyrembel : Clinical Dictionary , 266th, updated edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033997-0 , keyword: toxicity
2. ↑ Willibald Pschyrembel: Clinical Dictionary, 266th, updated edition, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033997-0 , keyword Myel-

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