acute myelocytic leukemia
- noun
- /əˈkjut ˌmaɪəloʊˈsɪtɪk luˈkimɪə/
- Specialized
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leucemia mielocítica aguda
- The doctor explained that acute myelocytic leukemia is more common in young adults and can progress rapidly without intervention.
Examples
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I was diagnosed with acute myelocytic leukemia.
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Now, Mrs. Black, you are the mother of Donny Ray Black, who recently died of acute myelocytic leukemia because the defendant, Great Benefit--
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No surprise that Jared's acute myelocytic leukemia had turned out to be so difficult to cure.
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No more thumbing through dense (and badly written) journals for the latest news about acute myelocytic leukemia.
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Doctors confirmed that he was suffering from acute myelocytic leukemia, a serious condition that needs immediate treatment.
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After several tests, the team found that her symptoms were caused by acute myelocytic leukemia, a rare type of cancer.
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-growing blood and bone marrow cancer that makes many immature white blood cells
A cancer that makes the body produce many young white blood cells in the blood
A blood cancer that makes too many young white blood cells
A cancer that makes too many young white blood cells
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Surface Forms
Morphology
acute + myelocytic + leukemia
The phrase is compositionally built from 'acute' (sudden), 'myelocytic' (related to myelocytes) and 'leukemia' (blood cancer), so its meaning — a sudden-onset leukemia affecting myelocytes — can be directly inferred from the parts. Although clinical jargon is specialized, the modifier + noun structure is transparent and cross-linguistically predictable, allowing a learner who knows the constituent meanings to grasp the general concept.
Etymology
Acute myelocytic leukemia is a medical name that describes the condition: acute means 'sudden', myelocytic points to cells made in the bone 'marrow', and leukemia refers to 'white blood' cells. So, the name describes a sudden illness when abnormal white blood cells from the marrow 'grow fast' and crowd out healthy cells.