histiocytic leukemia
- noun
- /ˌhɪstiəˈsɪtɪk luˈkiːmiə/
- Specialized
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leucemia histiocítica
- The patient was diagnosed with histiocytic leukemia following a series of blood tests and biopsies.
Examples
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Treatments for histiocytic leukemia often include chemotherapy and stem cell transplants.
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Pediatric cases of histiocytic leukemia are rare but require immediate medical attention.
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Doctors diagnosed her with histiocytic leukemia last week.
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I read about histiocytic leukaemias in a medical journal.
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Pediatric cases of histiocytic leukemia are rare but require immediate medical attention.
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The patient was diagnosed with histiocytic leukemia following a series of blood tests and biopsies.
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Treatments for histiocytic leukemia often include chemotherapy and stem cell transplants.
Synonyms
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A serious cancer that makes too many abnormal white blood cells
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A disease in which the body makes too many white blood cells
A blood cancer with too many monocytes, a type of white blood cell
A blood cancer in which one kind of white blood cell becomes too many
How Severe
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Given knowledge of the constituents, the adjective 'histiocytic' (pertaining to histiocytes) directly modifies 'leukemia' (a blood/immune-system cancer), so the phrase denotes a type of leukemia involving histiocytes/monocytes. This is a straightforward adjective+noun medical formation following standard compositional patterns, making the meaning derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Histiocytic leukemia comes from the parts histiocytic, from histiocytes that are cells living in body 'tissue', and leukemia, which means 'blood cancer'. So it names a disease where these tissue cells show up too often in the blood, which is why it means 'a cancer of certain immune cells in the blood'.