acute lymphocytic leukemia

1. 1.

   acute leukemia characterized by proliferation of immature lymphoblast-like cells in bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and blood; most common in children

   Synonymsacute lymphoblastic leukemia

   Broaderacute leukemia

Questions about acute lymphocytic leukemia

What does acute lymphocytic leukemia mean?

acute lymphocytic leukemia means "acute leukemia characterized by proliferation of immature lymphoblast-like cells in bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen, and blood; most common in children".

What is another word for acute lymphocytic leukemia?

Close synonyms include acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acute lymphocytic leukemia a common word?

acute lymphocytic leukemia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.