Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Originating in or produced by the bone marrow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
myelogenic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Originating in, or produced by,
bone marrow
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Examples
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Leukemias (acute lymphoblastic leukemia and acute myelogenous leukemia)
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He was diagnosed in 2003 with acute myelogenous leukemia.
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He was diagnosed in 2003 with acute myelogenous leukemia.
Zadroga Bill's Passage Raises Question: Who Will Be Covered? AP 2011
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Dr. Lange has led many national studies to treat acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and is responsible for developing national trials to reduce the side-effects of leukemia and its treatment.
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He was diagnosed in 2003 with acute myelogenous leukemia.
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She had acute myelogenous leukemia, a type of leukemia common among adults but rare among children.
Obituaries of note: Joseph Gavin; Denise Borino-Quinn; Shannon Tavarez Post 2010
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Despite their split, they eventually managed to come back together when O'Neal was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia in 2001 (it has since been controlled with the drug Gleevec).
Ryan O'Neal: I Hit On My Daughter Tatum At Farrah's Funeral 2010
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That's what appears to be happening with imatinib (Gleevec), a drug used to treat chronic myelogenous leukemia.
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For most of those in which it is known, including some blood cancers other than chronic myelogenous leukemia, there aren't yet drugs that target the defect.
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More than 3,000 people have signed up to be potential bone-marrow donors since word spread that 11-year-old Shannon Tavarez, one of the child stars of "The Lion King" on Broadway, needed a transplant to combat her acute myelogenous leukemia.
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