acute myeloid leukemia
- noun
- /əˈkjuːt ˈmaɪəloʊɪd luˈkiːmiə/
- Specialized
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leucemia mieloide aguda
- Helen was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia last year at the age of 61.
- acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
- diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia
- aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia
Six months later, she comes back with acute myeloid leukemia.
- Six months later, she comes back with acute myeloid leukemia.
Examples
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I have acute myeloid leukemia.
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Here is the cancer cell, acute myeloid leukemia, and here is AT regulatory cell.
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During his treatment for acute myeloid leukemia, he received a donation of genetically matched stem cells.
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Researchers are studying how acute myeloid leukemia cells can resist chemotherapy treatments.
Synonyms
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A serious cancer that makes too many abnormal white blood cells
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A fast-growing blood cancer that makes many young white blood cells
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A disease in which the body makes too many white blood cells
A fast cancer of the blood that makes many abnormal white blood cells and often affects teenagers and young adults
A cancer that makes the body produce many young white blood cells in the blood
A cancer that makes too many young white blood cells
A cancer of the blood that makes too many white blood cells
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'acute' (sudden/severe) + 'myeloid' (pertaining to bone-marrow-derived cells) + 'leukemia' (blood cancer) yields a sudden-onset blood cancer affecting myeloid cells. Although medical, the meaning is directly derivable from the constituent parts and has similar compound structure in many languages, so a learner who knows the component words can understand it.
Etymology
The name acute myeloid leukemia comes from older words: acute means 'sudden', myeloid points to the bone marrow where blood cells are made, and leukemia means 'white blood' because the disease shows many white blood cells. So the name tells us it is a sudden disease of the bone marrow that makes too many young white blood cells.