Definition of Acute myeloid leukemia

1. Noun. Acute leukemia characterized by proliferation of granular leukocytes; most common in adolescents and young adults.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Acute Myeloid Leukemia

acute lower GI haemorrhage
acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
acute lymphoblastic leukemia
acute lymphocytic leukaemia
acute lymphocytic leukemia
acute malaria
acute mania
acute membranous gingivitis
acute miliary tuberculosis
acute monocytic leukaemia
acute mountain sickness
acute myeloblastic leukaemia
acute myelocytic leukemia
acute myelogenous leukaemia
acute myeloid leukaemia
acute myeloid leukemia (current term)
acute necrotising ulcerative gingivitis
acute necrotizing encephalitis
acute necrotizing haemorrhagic encephalomyelitis
acute necrotizing haemorrhagic leukoencephalitis
acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
acute nephritic syndrome
acute nephritis
acute nephrosis
acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia
acute organic brain syndrome
acute pancreatitis
acute parenchymatous hepatitis
acute porphyria

Literary usage of Acute myeloid leukemia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"A very skilled hematologist may, it is true, distinguish the cells of acute myeloid leukemia from those of acute lymphadenoid leukemia, but even he may have ..."

2. Practice of Medicine by Frederick Tice (1922)
"The postmortem findings in acute myeloid leukemia vary only slightly from those encountered in the chronic form save that the changes such as would require ..."

3. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1912)
"On the other hand, Nageli has obtained, in a few cases of acute myeloid leukemia, a negative reaction which he explains as due to a varying ferment content ..."

4. Leukemia: A Research Report edited by Barry Leonard (1998)
"... and biological therapy with monoclonal antibodies (see page 24). Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia Each year, about 600 children develop AML ..."

5. Gulf War And Health by Institute of Medicine (2005)
"... myelodysplastic syndromes may develop into acute myeloid leukemia) (NCI ... acute myeloid leukemia (AML), also called acute non-lymphocytic leukemia ..."

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