Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A malignant tumor formed by the cells of the bone marrow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A giant-celled sarcoma.
- noun A tumor of the bone-marrow, often multiple.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology A malignant
tumour arising from cells of thebone marrow , specificallyplasma cells .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a tumor of the bone marrow (usually malignant) composed of cells normally found in bone marrow
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Examples
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I suffer from something called myeloma, which is a rare cancer of the bone.
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In December of 1998, I, too, was diagnosed with a blood cancer, multiple myeloma, which is also not curable.
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I am just wondering -- my mom has multiple myeloma, which is a bone-marrow cancer.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Curing What Ails You in the New Millennium - January 4, 2000 2000
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He died of myeloma, which is cancer of the bone, and he did not want my mother to bear the pain of having to take care of him so he came to Washington and he was here for two months and he died by my side -- it was just the two of us -- about 5 a.m. one Monday morning.
Beyond Blame: How We Can Succeed by Breaking the Dependency Barrier 1995
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When she became Millennium's CEO, Velcade was approved in the U.S. only as a second-line treatment for patients who have already taken other drugs of multiple myeloma, which is often fatal.
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According to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, multiple myeloma (also known as myeloma or plasma cell myeloma) is a progressive hematologic (blood) disease.
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Multiple myeloma, also known as myeloma or plasma cell myeloma, is cancer of the plasma cells
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Multiple myeloma, also known as myeloma or plasma cell myeloma, is cancer of the plasma cells
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Multiple myeloma (also known as myeloma or plasma cell myeloma) is a cancer of the blood in which malignant plasma cells are overproduced in the bone marrow.
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Multiple myeloma, also known as myeloma or plasma cell myeloma, is cancer of the plasma cells
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