myelocythaemiamyelocythemian.
/ˌmʌɪələ(ʊ)sʌɪˈtiːmɪə/, U.S. /ˈˌmaɪəloʊˌsaɪˈtimiə/ Medicine (now disused).
The presence of myeloid cells in the peripheral blood; myeloid leukaemia.
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1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 636 It might be more correct to speak of it as medullary or myelogenic leucocythæmia, or myelocythæmia with splenic enlargement.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 600/2 A myelocythaemia being converted into a lymphocythaemia.
1908 Practitioner Feb. 235 The terms myelocythaemia and lymphocythaemia have been coined to more accurately express the condition.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) xxii. 568 Myeloid leukæmia.—The other names by which this disease is known are myelogenous leukæmia, myelocytic leukæmia, myelocythæmia, or spleno-medullary leukæmia.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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