chronic myeloid leukemia

English

Noun

chronic myeloid leukemia (countable and uncountable, plural chronic myeloid leukemias)

1. a cancerous proliferation of mature granulocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils and basophils) and their precursors in blood and bone marrow associated with the Philadelphia chromosome.

Synonyms

• Chronic myelogenous or myelocytic leukemia (CML), chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL)

Hypernyms

• myeloproliferative disease