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ALEUKEMIA


originator: Clara
origination date: 05/06/2002
subject field: medicine: disease
check date: 10/06/2002
checker: Pamela

Conceptual Structures
ISAIMMUNITY-DISORDER
ANCESTORSALL
CHANGE-STATE
CHANGE-STATE-ANIMAL
DISEASE-EVENT
EVENT
IMMUNITY-DISORDER
LIVING-EVENT
PHYSICAL-EVENT


English
aleukemiaterm type: main entry term
reliability code: 10
part of speech: noun
number: singular
definition: condition in which the bone marrow has an abnormally high number of cancerous white blood cells, which are not entering the bloodstream. Aleukemia occurs in about 30% of all patients with leukemia, regardless of the specific type. When a patient is aleukemic, the leukemia is not behaving in the usual way, i.e., with an overwhelming number of early white blood cells in the blood. A person with aleukemia will have a normal or low white blood count. (en)

Spanish
aleucemiaterm type: main entry term
reliability code: 10
part of speech: noun
number: singular
gender: feminine
definition: enfermedad en la cual la médula ósea presenta un número elevado de leucocitos cancerosos que no han entrado en el torrente sanguíneo. La aleucemia se manifiesta en aproximadamente el 30% de los pacientes con leucemia, independientemente del tipo. Cuando un paciente presenta aleucemia, la leucemia no se desarrolla del modo habitual, es decir, con saturación de leucocitos en sangre. Un paciente con aleucemia presentará un recuento de leucocitos normal o inferior. (es)