myelomatosis
English edit
Etymology edit
myelomat- (stem of myeloma) + -osis
Noun edit
myelomatosis (countable and uncountable, plural myelomatoses)
- (pathology) (oncology) multiple myeloma
- 1903, “A Case of Multiple Myeloma (Myelomatosis) with Bence-Jones Proteid in the Urine”, in Medico-Chirugical Transactions[1], number 83, pages 395–470:
- If the tumour be termed myeloma the whole process may, for this reason, justly be termed "myelomatosis."
- 1904, Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology[2], volume 9, number 2:
- At the necropsy the bone marrow of all the bones examined was found to be more or less affected by a diffuse sarcoma-like growth of rounded or polyhedral mononuclear cells- a form of "multiple myeloma" or "myelomatosis".