acute myeloid leukemia

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   acute leukemia characterized by proliferation of granular leukocytes; most common in adolescents and young adults

   Synonymsacute myelocytic leukemia

   Broadermyelocytic leukemiaacute leukemia

Questions about acute myeloid leukemia

What does acute myeloid leukemia mean?

acute myeloid leukemia means "acute leukemia characterized by proliferation of granular leukocytes; most common in adolescents and young adults".

What is another word for acute myeloid leukemia?

Close synonyms include acute myelocytic 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 myeloid leukemia a common word?

acute myeloid 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.