Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Abnormal development of the spinal cord.
- noun Dysplasia of myelocytes and other cells in the bone marrow.
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- noun medicine Any of various conditions characterized by the faulty or inadequate production of
bone marrow orblood cells
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Examples
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Unlike Frei, though, Canellos had turned from advocate to adversary of megadose chemo regimens, in part because he had been among the first to notice a devastating long-term side effect: as doses escalated, some chemotherapeutic drugs damaged the marrow so severely that, in time, these regimens could precipitate a premalignant syndrome called myelodysplasia, a condition that tended to progress to leukemia.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Unlike Frei, though, Canellos had turned from advocate to adversary of megadose chemo regimens, in part because he had been among the first to notice a devastating long-term side effect: as doses escalated, some chemotherapeutic drugs damaged the marrow so severely that, in time, these regimens could precipitate a premalignant syndrome called myelodysplasia, a condition that tended to progress to leukemia.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Unlike Frei, though, Canellos had turned from advocate to adversary of megadose chemo regimens, in part because he had been among the first to notice a devastating long-term side effect: as doses escalated, some chemotherapeutic drugs damaged the marrow so severely that, in time, these regimens could precipitate a premalignant syndrome called myelodysplasia, a condition that tended to progress to leukemia.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Working with mice with normal blood stem cells, Scadden, who is also co-chair of Harvard's inter-School Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB), and his team found that when they made a particular genetic alteration in the bone cells surrounding the blood stem cells of the mice, the mice developed a condition called myelodysplasia, a blood disease that is often a precursor of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), a highly aggressive, usually fatal, form of cancer.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Sontag, having survived uterine and breast cancer, had been diagnosed with myelodysplasia, a precancerous disease that often sours into full-blown leukemia.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Sontag, having survived uterine and breast cancer, had been diagnosed with myelodysplasia, a precancerous disease that often sours into full-blown leukemia.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Sontag, having survived uterine and breast cancer, had been diagnosed with myelodysplasia, a precancerous disease that often sours into full-blown leukemia.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The agency also wants to eliminate its use in myelodysplasia, a form of leukemia.
Merrill Goozner: What Happens When a Heavily-Advertised Drug Harms? 2008
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Perhaps myelodysplasia should be taken off the list.
Merrill Goozner: What Happens When a Heavily-Advertised Drug Harms? 2008
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Morton began praying for Sagan after he was diagnosed with myelodysplasia, a disease related to leukemia, in the winter of 1995.
Unbeliever's Quest 2008
travismcdermott commented on the word myelodysplasia
1916 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 151 470 Most cases of enuresis nocturna, he thinks, can not be attributed to myelodysplasia.
July 23, 2008