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stress polycythemia
a chronic type of relative polycythemia, seen most often in middle-aged, mildly overweight males who are active, anxiety-prone, and hypertensive, occurring without
the characteristic symptoms of polycythemia vera such as an enlarged spleen or excessive white blood cells or platelets in circulation. Called also stress erythrocytosis and benign or chronic relative polycythemia.

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