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Definition: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia |
Acute Lymphoblastic LeukemiaNoun1. Acute leukemia characterized by proliferation of immature lymphoblast-like cells in bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and blood; most common in children. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | ALL. A quickly progressing disease in which too many immature white blood cells called lymphoblasts are found in the blood and bone marrow. Also called acute lymphocytic leukemia. (references) |
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Synonym: Acute Lymphoblastic LeukemiaSynonym: acute lymphocytic leukemia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia |
| Specialty definitions using "acute lymphoblastic leukemia": Leukemia, CALLA-Positive, Lymphoma, Lymphoblastic ♦ Neprilysin, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ♦ Phenylalanine Ammonia-Lyase. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | A 10 year-old white girl is pictured here with her father in a swimming pool. She was diagnosed at age three with a form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) that did not respond to therapy. She is presently in long-term remission after an experimental bone marrow transplant was performed. She now suffers from chronic GVH (Graft Versus Host Disease) which is rare.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 61 |
adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 5 |
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| Language | Translations for "acute lymphoblastic leukemia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | akut lymfoblastær leukæmi, akut lymfatisk leukæmi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | acute lymfoblastaire leukemie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | akuutti lymfoblastileukemia, äkillinen lymfoblastileukemia (acute lymphoblastic L1 leukemia, acute lymphoblastic L2 leukemia). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | leucémie aiguë lymphoblastique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | akute Lymphoblastenleukämie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | οξεία λεμφοβλαστική λευχαιμία. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | leucemia acuta linfoblastica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acuteay ymphoblasticlay eukemialay leucemia linfoblástica aguda. (various references) leucemia linfoblástica aguda. (various references) akut lymfoblastleukemi, akut lymfatisk leukemi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 75 74 65      4C 79 6D 70 68 6F 62 6C 61 73 74 69 63      4C 65 75 6B 65 6D 69 61 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01110101 01110100 01100101 00100000 01001100 01111001 01101101 01110000 01101000 01101111 01100010 01101100 01100001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01100011 00100000 01001100 01100101 01110101 01101011 01100101 01101101 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c u t e   L y m p h o b l a s t i c   L e u k e m i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0075 0074 0065      004C 0079 006D 0070 0068 006F 0062 006C 0061 0073 0074 0069 0063      004C 0065 0075 006B 0065 006D 0069 0061 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)356987867124691798274816878678586756924671877771797567 |
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