lymphoblastic leukemia
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- noun
- /ˌlɪmfoʊˈblæstɪk luˈkiːmiə/
- Specialized
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leucemia linfoblástica
- Cure of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is one of the most impressive accomplishments of modern cancer chemotherapy.
- acute lymphoblastic leukemia
- lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
Examples
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The second PHN patient was a man affected by acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with steroids and vinca alkaloids.
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Of the 5 children, 3 were infants of low birthweight, 1 neonate had late onset sepsis, and one 10-year-old child had acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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Do you know what acute lymphoblastic leukemia is?
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I have acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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She passed away from acute lymphoblastic leukemia five years ago.
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In early May, just before his 30th birthday, Schwarz was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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Cases of lymphoblastic leukemia have more than quadrupled, with other cancers also increasing at an alarming rate.
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Christian was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in August 2012 and will be receiving chemotherapy and some radiation.
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In the 1950s, Boston pathologist Sidney Farber used another chemical compound to treat children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
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My son was diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia, and I just woke up to the reality of the disease.
Synonyms
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A fast cancer of the blood in which the body makes many immature white blood cells often in children
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A fast-developing blood cancer where immature white blood cells build up, often in children
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun medical compound: 'lymphoblastic' (pertaining to immature lymphoblasts) qualifies the noun 'leukemia' (blood/immune-system cancer), so the combined meaning is a leukemia involving immature lymphoblasts. Although the vocabulary is technical, the semantic composition is fully predictable from the constituents and follows common compounding patterns found across languages.
Etymology
Lymphoblastic leukemia comes from words that describe the problem: lympho means a kind of white blood cell, blastic means a very young or immature cell, and leukemia means 'disease of white blood cells'. So the name tells us this is a disease with too many young lymph cells in the blood and inside the bones.