CHRONIC-MONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA

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CHRONIC-MONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA

Definition: a progressive disease in which abnormal, immature white blood cells (monocytes and nmonoblasts) are produced in the bone marrow. The result is an excessive accumulation of those cells in the bloodstream and bone marrow.

Conceptual Structures
ISA	MONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
ANCESTORS	ALL CHANGE-STATE CHANGE-STATE-ANIMAL DISEASE-EVENT EVENT HAVE-NEOPLASM LIVING-EVENT MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-BY-BODY-PART MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LYMPHATIC-AND-HEMATOPOIETIC-TISSUE MONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA PHYSICAL-EVENT
INHERITED RELATIONS	AFFECTS-PHYSIOLOGICAL-SYSTEM : PART-OF-PHYSIOLOGICAL-SYSTEM (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) AFFECTS-TISSUE : TISSUE (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) AGENT : ANIMAL (from LIVING-EVENT ) CAUSED-BY : CARCINOGEN (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) DIAGNOSED-WITH : DIAGNOSTIC-PROCEDURE (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) DIAGNOSED-WITH-THE-USE-OF : MEDICAL-DEVICE (from DISEASE-EVENT ) EXPERIENCER : PATIENT (from DISEASE-EVENT ) HAS-RISK-FACTOR : DIET (from MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM ) LOCATION : PLACE (from PHYSICAL-EVENT ) THEME : OBJECT (from CHANGE-STATE ) TREATED-WITH : MACROBIOTIC-DIET (from MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM ) TREATED-WITH-THE-USE-OF : PHARMACEUTICAL-MATERIAL (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) MEDICAL-DEVICE (from HAVE-NEOPLASM )
INHERITED ATTRIBUTES	DIRECTION-OF-CHANGE : NEGATIVE (from CHANGE-STATE ) POSITIVE (from CHANGE-STATE ) TYPE-OF-CHANGE : PHYSICAL (from DISEASE-EVENT ) MENTAL (from DISEASE-EVENT )