myeloma
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- noun
- /maɪəˈloʊmə/
- Specialized
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mieloma
- The presence of infection, myeloma, and age can also raise the ESR.
- multiple myeloma
- myeloma, a cancer
- progression to myeloma
So today we might say patients who have a particular blood abnormality, we will say are multiple myeloma patients.
- So today we might say patients who have a particular blood abnormality, we will say are multiple myeloma patients.
Examples
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And what you have in multiple myeloma is the following.
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All other screening tests to rule out multiple myeloma were negative.
Academic text (2005) -
I'm beginning to question the whole multiple myeloma thing.
Fiction book (1996) -
On the other hand, a significant percentage of cases of multiple myeloma are associated with amyloidosis.
Academic text (2005) -
Survival at 10 years is 70%, and it is related to progression to multiple myeloma.
Academic text (2010) -
Their mother had received her chemotherapy courses; her myeloma had remitted for five years.
Academic text (1993) -
As many as half of all cases of systemic amyloidosis are associated with multiple myeloma.
Academic text (2005) -
Five years later, in 2004, his father died from multiple myeloma, a malignant tumor of the bone marrow.
Blog text (12) -
The results of a bone survey were normal, and a bone marrow biopsy yielded no evidence of multiple myeloma.
Academic text (2010) -
In May 1999, King was diagnosed with myeloma, a form of cancer affecting the bone marrow.
Synonyms
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A cancer of blood cells in the bone marrow that appears in several places
A cancer in the bone marrow, often in the pelvis or long bones
A growth of abnormal plasma cells usually in bone marrow but sometimes in other tissues
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.3
A cancer of blood cells in the bone marrow that appears in several places
Surface Forms
Morphology
myeloma = myel + oma
Formed from Greek medical combining forms ('myel-' 'oma') that are not productive standalone English words, so a typical learner cannot infer 'bone marrow tumor' from the components.
Etymology
The word myeloma comes from the Greek parts myelo- meaning 'marrow' (like the English word 'marrow') and -oma meaning 'tumor'. So, a myeloma is a tumor that grows in the bone marrow.