| polymorphocytic leukaemia | Granulocytic leukaemia, especially any variety in which the predominant cells are mature, segmented granulocytes. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| leukemia | <haematology> An acute or chronic disease of unknown cause in man and other warm blooded animals that involves the blood forming organs, is characterised by an abnormal increase in the number of leucocytes in the tissues of the body with or without a corresponding increase of those in the circulating blood and is classified according of the type leucocyte most prominently involved. (18 Nov 1997) |