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GRANULOCYTIC

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to granulocytes

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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

granulocyte (a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm)

Derivation:

granulocyte (a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm)

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Also called chronic granulocytic leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia, and CML.

(Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, NCI Dictionary)

Also called chronic granulocytic leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia, and CML.

(Chronic myelogenous leukemia, NCI Dictionary)

Also called: Leukemia, Myeloid, Chronic, CML, Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Chronic granulocytic leukemia, Chronic myelogenous leukemia

(Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Primitive blood cells derived from embryonic mesenchyme capable of differentiating into any of the blood cell line progenitor cells (erythroblasts, young granulocytic series cells, megakaryocytes, etc.)

(Murine Stem Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

They are morphologically distinguishable from mature granulocytic leukocytes by their large, non-lobed nuclei and lack of coarse, heavily stained cytoplasmic granules.

(Non-Granular Leukocyte, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Primitive blood cells residing in the bone marrow, derived from embryonic mesenchyme, and capable of differentiating into any of the blood cell line progenitor cells (erythroblasts, young granulocytic series cells, megakaryocytes, etc.)

(Bone Marrow Stem Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

An acute myeloid leukemia with monocytic and granulocytic differentiation and the presence of a characteristically abnormal eosinophil component in the bone marrow.

(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with inv(16)(p13.1q22) or t(16;16)(p13.1;q22); CBFB-MYH11, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Comment: a mixture of immature granulocytic cells, erythroid precursors, and megakaryocytes are normally seen at a low level in mouse spleen; increased levels in spleen in hyperplasia, also maybe in liver, adrenals and nodes.

(Non-Neoplastic Splenic Myeloid Hyperplasia of Mouse, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

Also called granulocytic sarcoma.

(Chloroma, NCI Dictionary)

Bone marrow cells are less than 50% erythroid cells; Bone marrow cells are less than 50% megakaryocytic cells; Comprised predominantly of granulocytic and/or monocytic cells and their precursors; NOT (greater than 90% immature forms/blasts in bone marrow AND bi-phenotypic)

(Mouse Myeloid Leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)