MYELOFIBROSIS

myelofibrosis

(noun) fibrosis of the bone marrow

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

myelofibrosis (countable and uncountable, plural myelofibroses)

collagen deposition by fibroblasts in the bone marrow, whether primary or secondary to other causes such as medication.

Usage notes

• The term usually refers to PMF (primary myelofibrosis), but secondary forms also exist, e.g. due to polycythemia vera or essential thrombocythaemia.

Source: Wiktionary



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SYNCRETISM

(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)


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