refractory anaemia with excess blasts

English

Alternative forms

• RAEB

Noun

refractory anaemia with excess blasts (countable and uncountable, plural refractory anaemias with excess blasts)

1. (medicine) One of the myelodysplastic syndromes, namely having between 5-20% myeloblasts in the bone marrow; by the WHO further subdivided into RAEB-1 and RAEB-2, with 5-9% and 10-19% blasts, respectively.

Hypernyms

• myelodysplastic syndrome

Related terms

• RAEB-1
• RAEB-2

References

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