chronic myeloid leukemia

English

Noun

chronic myeloid leukemia (countable and uncountable, plural chronic myeloid leukemias)

a cancerous proliferation of mature granulocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils and basophils) and their precursors in blood and bone marrow associated with the Philadelphia chromosome.

Synonyms

Chronic myelogenous or myelocytic leukemia (CML), chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL)

Hypernyms

myeloproliferative disease

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