myeloblastic leukemia
- noun
- /ˌmaɪəloʊˈblæstɪk luˈkiːmiə/
- Specialized
:
leucemia mieloblástica
- Today, she would have to tell the parents of a twelve-year-old boy that he had acute myeloblastic leukemia.
Examples
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Dee had acute myeloblastic leukemia, which had entered the bone marrow and turned it black.
Fiction book (1991) -
Patients with myeloblastic leukemia often undergo chemotherapy to reduce the number of myeloblasts.
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The doctor explained that myeloblastic leukemia affects the production of healthy blood cells.
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After a few tests, the team confirmed that he was diagnosed with myeloblastic leukemia.
Synonyms
A fast-growing blood and bone marrow cancer that makes many immature white blood cells
A fast cancer of the blood that makes many abnormal white blood cells and often affects teenagers and young adults
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'myeloblastic' specifies involvement of immature bone-marrow myeloblasts and 'leukemia' denotes a cancer of blood-forming tissues. A learner who knows both constituent meanings can therefore infer it refers to a leukemia characterized by an abnormal increase of myeloblasts; it is technical but semantically transparent.
Etymology
Myeloblastic leukemia comes from medical parts: myelo meaning 'bone marrow', blastic meaning 'young cells', and leukemia meaning 'a blood cancer'. So the name describes a cancer where many young cells from the marrow appear in the blood, which is why it means a serious 'blood cancer'.
