ACUTE LEUKEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acute leukemia mean? 

• ACUTE LEUKEMIA (noun)
  The noun ACUTE LEUKEMIA has 1 sense:

1. rapidly progressing leukemia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACUTE LEUKEMIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rapidly progressing leukemia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("acute leukemia" is a kind of...):

cancer of the blood; leucaemia; leukaemia; leukemia (malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acute leukemia"):

acute lymphoblastic leukemia; acute lymphocytic leukemia (acute leukemia characterized by proliferation of immature lymphoblast-like cells in bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and blood; most common in children)

acute myelocytic leukemia; acute myeloid leukemia (acute leukemia characterized by proliferation of granular leukocytes; most common in adolescents and young adults)

 Context examples 

A rare mixed phenotype acute leukemia in which the blasts also carry the translocation (9;22)(q34;q11.2) by karyotypic analysis or the BCR-ABL1 translocation by FISH or PCR.

(Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia with t(9;22)(q34;q11.2); BCR-ABL1, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare mixed phenotype acute leukemia in which the blasts also carry a translocation involving the MLL gene.

(Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia with t(v;11q23); MLL Rearranged, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare mixed phenotype acute leukemia in which the blasts express B-lymphoid and myeloid lineage markers but are negative for MLL translocation and (9;22)(q34;q11.2) translocation.

(Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia, B/Myeloid, Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare mixed phenotype acute leukemia in which the blasts express T-lymphoid and myeloid lineage markers but are negative for MLL translocation and (9;22)(q34;q11.2) translocation.

(Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia, T/Myeloid, Not Otherwise Specified, NCI Thesaurus)

An acute leukemia of ambiguous lineage.

(Mixed Phenotype Acute Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)

A B-cell acute leukemia characterized by the presence of lymphoblasts which contain less than 46 chromosomes.

(Hypodiploid B Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus)

Chronic eosinophilic leukemia may stay the same for many years, or it may progress quickly to acute leukemia.

(Chronic eosinophilic leukemia, NCI Dictionary)

Chronic neutrophilic leukemia may stay the same for many years or it may progress quickly to acute leukemia.

(Chronic neutrophilic leukemia, NCI Dictionary)

The active ingredient in a drug used to treat acute leukemias and some other types of cancer.

(Daunomycin, NCI Dictionary)

It has been described in hematologic malignancies presenting as myeloproliferative neoplasms or acute leukemias.

(FGFR1 Gene Rearrangement, NCI Thesaurus)