See Also: anakmesis(medicine)

unwieldiness (iou) and anakmesis (medicine)


unwieldiness (iou)



unwieldiness noun. LME.
[from UNWIELDY + -NESS.]
The state or condition of being weak or feeble; infirmity. LME-M18.
The state or condition of being unwieldy. L16.

anakmesis (medicine)


anakmesis
Arrest of maturation of leukocytes in their production centres, thereby resulting in greater numbers of young forms and progressively smaller proportions of mature granular cells in the bone marrow, as observed in agranulocytosis.

Origin: G. An-priv. + akmenos, full grown, fr. Akme, highest point