monoblastic leukaemia
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A scientist examines a blood slide showing monoblastic leukaemia under a microscope.
Definition
- Noun:
- A type of acute myeloid leukemia: "monoblastic leukaemia" is a specific form of blood cancer where there is an abnormal, rapid proliferation of immature white blood cells called monoblasts and their more mature forms, monocytes, in the blood and bone marrow.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- The patient was diagnosed with monoblastic leukaemia after a bone marrow biopsy.
- Treatment for monoblastic leukaemia often involves intensive chemotherapy.
Advanced Usage
- Medical Classification: The term is used in precise medical and hematological contexts to classify a subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), specifically AML-M5 in the older French-American-British (FAB) classification system.
- The pathology report confirmed it was monoblastic leukaemia, classified as AML-M5b.
Variants and Related Words
- Monoblastic leukemia (n): The American English spelling variant (using 'leukemia').
- Acute monoblastic leukemia (n): A more precise full term.
- Monoblast (n): The immature precursor cell that proliferates abnormally in this disease.
- Monocytic leukemia (n): A closely related term sometimes used interchangeably, though it can refer to a more mature cell type proliferation.
Synonyms
- Acute monoblastic leukemia (AML-M5): The formal medical synonym.
- Acute monocytic leukemia: A closely related term in medical nomenclature.
Related Phrases
- To be in remission from monoblastic leukaemia: A phrase describing the state after successful treatment where no cancer cells are detected.
- After the transplant, she has been in remission from monoblastic leukaemia for two years.
A scientist examines a blood slide showing monoblastic leukaemia under a microscope.
Noun
- leukemia characterized by the proliferation of monocytes and monoblasts in the blood