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smoldering
smol·der also smoul·der (smōl′dər)intr.v. smol·dered, smol·der·ing, smol·ders also smoul·dered or smoul·der·ing or smoul·ders 1. To burn with little smoke and no flame.2. To exist in a suppressed state: Revolution smoldered in the masses.3. To show signs of repressed anger or hatred.n. Thick smoke resulting from a slow fire.
[Middle English smolderen, to suffocate, from smolder, smoke, probably alteration of smorther, from Old English smorian, to smoke.]smoldering (ˈsməʊldərɪŋ) adj the US spelling of smoulderingThesaurus| Adj. | 1. | smoldering - showing scarcely suppressed anger; "her tone was...conversational although...her eyes were smoldering"- James Henselsmoulderingangry - feeling or showing anger; "angry at the weather"; "angry customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters to the papers" |
smoldering
smoldering[′smōl·driŋ] (chemistry) Combustion of a solid without a flame, often with emission of smoke. smolderingThe combustion of solid materials without the accompaniment of flame.smoldering
adult T-cell leukemia-lymphoma Oncology A rapidly-progressive lymphoproliferative malignancy of mature T lymphocytes, commonly associated with infection by the retrovirus, HTLV-I, first described in southeastern Japan, also seen in the Caribbean, Africa and in blacks in the southeastern US, in whom the disease is aggressive with skin lesions, hypercalcemia, rapid enlargement of hilar, retroperitoneal and peripheral lymph nodes with mediastinal sparing, invasion of CNS, lungs, GI tract, opportunistic infections–eg,.Pneumocystis carinii. See T-cell lymphoma. Adult T-cell leukemia-lymphoma–clinical forms - Acute
- Median age 52, lymphadenopathy, hepatosplenomegaly, cutaneous lesions, up to a 20-year latency, often resistant to chemotherapy with poor prognosis following disease onset Lab ↑ Ca++, WBCs 10-500 × 109–US: 10-500 000/mm3, Sezary-like cells with CD3, CD4, CD2, and Tac+ surface antigens, causing a chronic, smoldering lymphoma
- Chronic
- Clinically between acute and smoldering disease
- Smoldering
- Characterized by erythematous skin nodules filled with lymphocytes that may undergo 'blast transformation' to the typical acute T cell leukemia
- Crisis
- When either 2. or 3. transform to ATL
- Lymphoma
- Most common in US; affects blacks with hypercalcemia, leukemia, hepatosplenomegaly, erythematous skin lesions, lytic bone lesions
smolderingOf some cancers or infections, developing, growing, or progressing slowly.smoldering
Related to smoldering: smoulderingSynonyms for smolderingadj showing scarcely suppressed angerSynonymsRelated Words |