REFRACTORY ANEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does refractory anemia mean? 

• REFRACTORY ANEMIA (noun)
  The noun REFRACTORY ANEMIA has 1 sense:

1. any of various anemic conditions that are not successfully treated by any means other than blood transfusions (and that are not associated with another primary disease)

  Familiarity information: REFRACTORY ANEMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REFRACTORY ANEMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various anemic conditions that are not successfully treated by any means other than blood transfusions (and that are not associated with another primary disease)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

refractory anaemia; refractory anemia

Hypernyms ("refractory anemia" is a kind of...):

anaemia; anemia (a deficiency of red blood cells)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "refractory anemia"):

sideroblastic anaemia; sideroblastic anemia; siderochrestic anaemia; siderochrestic anemia (refractory anemia characterized by sideroblasts in the bone marrow)

 Context examples 

It is associated with the development of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia with eosinophilia, refractory anemia with excess blasts, refractory anemia with multilineage dysplasia, and refractory anemia with multilineage dysplasia and ringed sideroblasts.

(Loss of Chromosome 7q, NCI Thesaurus)

It is associated with the development of refractory anemia with excess blasts, refractory anemia with multilineage dysplasia, and refractory anemia with multilineage dysplasia and ringed sideroblasts.

(Monosomy 5, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement is associated with both acute myeloid leukemia and refractory anemia with excess blasts.

(ETV6/MN1 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

This rearrangement was observed in one patient with refractory anemia with excess blasts with basophilia, one patient with acute myelogenous leukemia with eosinophilia, and one patient with acute eosinophilic leukemia

(ETV6/ACSL6 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

Erythrodysplasia may be caused by vitamin deficiency or chemotherapy, or it may be a sign of refractory anemia, which is a myelodysplastic syndrome.

(Erythrodysplasia, NCI Dictionary)

Erythroid dysplasia may be caused by vitamin deficiency or chemotherapy, or it may be a sign of refractory anemia, which is a myelodysplastic syndrome.

(Erythroid dysplasia, NCI Dictionary)

In one patient with refractory anemia with excess blasts with basophilia, this rearrangement fused exon 19 of the ACSL6 gene with a site within exon 1 of the ETV6 gene and could result in the production of a fusion protein.

(ACSL6/ETV6 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)