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Definition: Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia |
Acute Lymphocytic 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 lymphoblastic leukemia. (references) |
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Synonym: Acute Lymphocytic LeukemiaSynonym: acute lymphoblastic leukemia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia |
| English words defined with "acute lymphocytic leukemia": mercaptopurine ♦ Purinethol. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "acute lymphocytic leukemia": Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl ♦ Leukemia, Nonlymphocytic, Acute, Leukemia, T-Cell, Lymphoma, Lymphoblastic ♦ Neprilysin. (references) |
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 | Shown are various shots of two young girls with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) receiving chemotherapy. The girl on the left has an IV tube in the neck, the other girl's IV is in her arm. They are sitting on a bed and are demonstrating some of the procedures and techniques used with chemotherapy.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |  | Shown is a young girl with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) receiving chemotherapy. This is a close-up shot of her holding a teddy bear.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | Seen are two young girls with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) with a medical technician who is taking a blood sample from one of the girls while the other one looks on. The girls have undergone chemotherapy.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). | ||
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Health | The characteristics of the blasts in AML are generally similar to those of acute lymphocytic leukemia, but special tests can be done to help determine whether a leukemia is myelogenous or lymphocytic. (references) | |
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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. |
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acute lymphocytic leukemia | 117 |
adult acute lymphocytic leukemia | 4 |
childhood acute lymphocytic leukemia | 2 |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 75 74 65 4C 79 6D 70 68 6F 63 79 74 69 63 4C 65 75 6B 65 6D 69 61 |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)A c u t e   L y m p h o c y 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 0063 0079 0074 0069 0063 004C 0065 0075 006B 0065 006D 0069 0061 |
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