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Lekemia and other Blood Diseases

Including lymphocytic and myeloid leukemias, myelodysplastic syndromes (refractory anemias), polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia, myelofibrosis, agnogenic myeloid metaplasia, and Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia.

Related Adjectives and Equivalent Terms
Leukemia = leuko-

Chronic (C) a severe stage of chronic leukemia is "blast crisis"
Acute (A)
Lymphocytic (L) = lymphoblastic, lymphatic, lymphoid
Myelogenous (M) = non-lymphocytic (NL), myelocytic (M), myeloblastic (M), granulocytic (G),
monoblastic (M)
 

Examples

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) = Acute granulocytic leukemia (AGL)
Myelo- = bone marrow

Examples

Myelofibrosis = fibrosis of the bone marrow
Myelodysplasia = abnormal production of cells in the bone marrow
Myeloproliferative = excessive proliferation (reproduction) of cells in the bone marrow
Key Words

-blast an early or immature form of the cell
-cyte a mature or later form of the cell phenotype cell line (myeloid or lymphoid, T-cell or B-cell)

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