GAMMOPATHY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gammopathy mean? 

• GAMMOPATHY (noun)
  The noun GAMMOPATHY has 1 sense:

1. a disturbance in the synthesis of immunoglobulins; proteins having antibody activity increase greatly in the blood

  Familiarity information: GAMMOPATHY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAMMOPATHY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disturbance in the synthesis of immunoglobulins; proteins having antibody activity increase greatly in the blood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("gammopathy" is a kind of...):

pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)

 Context examples 

This category includes plasma cell myeloma, plasma cell leukemia, plasmacytoma, monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease, and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance.

(Plasma Cell Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Up to 25% of cases of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) progress to a B-cell malignancy or myeloma.

(Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, NCI Thesaurus)

A minority of patients have a monoclonal gammopathy.

(Extraosseous Plasmacytoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance.

(MGUS, NCI Dictionary)

Multiple myeloma, monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), and plasmacytoma are types of plasma cell tumors.

(Plasma Cell Neoplasm, NCI Dictionary)

Patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance are at an increased risk of developing cancer.

(Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, NCI Dictionary)