myelogenous leukemia

noun

: leukemia characterized by proliferation of myeloid tissue (as of the bone marrow and spleen) and an abnormal increase in the number of granulocytes, myelocytes, and myeloblasts in the circulating blood

called also myelocytic leukemia, myeloid leukemia

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The primary type, which was listed as a sequential underlying cause, was acute myelogenous leukemia, and the actor had also been been diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer, according to his death certificate obtained by People. —Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023

The underlying primary cause of death was recorded as acute myelogenous leukemia, a type of blood and bone marrow cancer. —Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2023

The primary type, which was listed as a sequential underlying cause, was determined to be acute myelogenous leukemia. —Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023

The existing therapies for chronic myelogenous leukemia were priced similarly. —WIRED, 4 Sep. 2023

A couple of months later, she was diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia. —Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023

Chronic myeloid leukemia Chronic myeloid leukemia, sometimes known as chronic myelogenous leukemia, is one of the rarer types of leukemia—only about 15% of leukemias in adults are CML, according to the ACS. —Barbara Brody, Health.com, 30 Sep. 2021

The patient received a blood stem cell transplant at City of Hope in early 2019 for acute myelogenous leukemia from an unrelated donor who has a rare genetic mutation, homozygous CCR5 Delta 32, City of Hope said. —Will Linendoll, ABC News, 28 July 2022

The life lessons taught by his dad Vincent, who died last November on his 80th birthday from chronic myelogenous leukemia, will always stay with Stonestreet. —Julie Jordan, PEOPLE.com, 9 Mar. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

myelogenous leukemia

noun

: leukemia characterized by proliferation of myeloid tissue (as of the bone marrow and spleen) and an abnormal increase in the number of granulocytes, myelocytes, and myeloblasts in the circulating blood

called also granulocytic leukemia, myeloblastic leukemia, myelocytic leukemia, myeloid leukemia

see acute myelogenous leukemia, acute nonlymphocytic leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia