MYELOFIBROSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myelofibrosis mean? 

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

1. fibrosis of the bone marrow

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYELOFIBROSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fibrosis of the bone marrow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

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

fibrosis (development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ)

 Context examples 

Myeloproliferative disorders include chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), polycythemia vera, primary myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythemia, chronic neutrophilic leukemia, and chronic eosinophilic leukemia.

(Myeloproliferative disorder, NCI Dictionary)

The determination of the presence or absence of dacryocytes, abnormal erythrocytes shaped like a teardrop, seen in myelofibrosis and certain other myeloproliferative diseases.

(Dacryocyte Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)

A drug used to treat certain types of myelofibrosis.

(Jakafi, NCI Dictionary)

Also called agnogenic myeloid metaplasia, idiopathic myelofibrosis, myelosclerosis with myeloid metaplasia, and primary myelofibrosis.

(Chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis, NCI Dictionary)

It is observed in disorders causing extramedullary hematopoiesis such as myelofibrosis and metastatic cancer to the bone marrow.

(Leukoerythroblastic Reaction, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called agnogenic myeloid metaplasia, chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis, idiopathic myelofibrosis, and primary myelofibrosis.

(Myelosclerosis with myeloid metaplasia, NCI Dictionary)

An allelic variant of the JAK2 gene, which exhibits a dominant gain of function mutation, is associated with several myeloproliferative disorders including polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia and idiopathic myelofibrosis.

(JAK2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called agnogenic myeloid metaplasia, chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis, myelosclerosis with myeloid metaplasia, and primary myelofibrosis.

(Idiopathic myelofibrosis, NCI Dictionary)

Also called chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis, idiopathic myelofibrosis, myelosclerosis with myeloid metaplasia, and primary myelofibrosis.

(Agnogenic myeloid metaplasia, NCI Dictionary)

Chronic myeloproliferative disorders include chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), polycythemia vera, primary myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythemia, chronic neutrophilic leukemia, and chronic eosinophilic leukemia.

(Chronic myeloproliferative disorder, NCI Dictionary)