CHRONIC MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chronic myelocytic leukemia mean? 

• CHRONIC MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (noun)
  The noun CHRONIC MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA has 1 sense:

1. chronic leukemia characterized by granular leukocytes; more common in older people

  Familiarity information: CHRONIC MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRONIC MYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chronic leukemia characterized by granular leukocytes; more common in older people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

chronic myelocytic leukemia; myeloid leukemia

Hypernyms ("chronic myelocytic leukemia" is a kind of...):

chronic leukemia (slowly progressing leukemia)

granulocytic leukemia; myelocytic leukemia (a malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; marked by proliferation of myelocytes and their presence in the blood)

 Context examples 

Daunorubicin is indicated in the treatment of a wide variety of cancers including acute non-lymphocytic leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, Ewing's sarcoma, Wilms' tumor, and chronic myelocytic leukemia.

(Daunorubicin Citrate, NCI Thesaurus)