Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun myeloid_leukemia

1 sense of myeloid leukemia

Sense 1
chronic myelocytic leukemia, myeloid leukemia -- (chronic leukemia characterized by granular leukocytes; more common in older people)
       => myelocytic leukemia, granulocytic leukemia -- (a malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; marked by proliferation of myelocytes and their presence in the blood)
       => chronic leukemia -- (slowly progressing leukemia)