MYELOFIBROSIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fibrosis of the bone marrow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("myelofibrosis" is a kind of...):

fibrosis (development of excess fibrous connective tissue in an organ)

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 Context examples: 

It can be a primary bone marrow lesion as part of the chronic myeloproliferative disorders (chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis), a manifestation of acute myeloid leukemia (acute panmyelosis with myelofibrosis), or a secondary phenomenon due to bone marrow involvement by a metastatic tumor (e.g., metastatic breast carcinoma). —2003

(Myelofibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)