Hairy-cell-leukemia
noun
1.
a form of cancer in which abnormal cells with many hairlike cytoplasmic projections appear in the bone marrow, liver, spleen, and blood.
hairy cell leukemia n.
A lymphocytic leukemia, usually originating with B cells, and characterized by splenomegaly and cells with a ciliated appearance in the spleen, bone marrow, liver, and blood. Also called leukemic reticuloendotheliosis.
Read Also:
- Hairy eyeball
noun a look of disdain or disapproval See stink eye Usage Note slang Related Terms give someone the fish-eye
- Hairy-faced
[hair-ee-feyst] /ˈhɛər iˌfeɪst/ adjective 1. having a face covered with hair.
- Hairy frog
noun 1. a W African frog, Astylosternus robustus, the males of which have glandular hairlike processes on the flanks
- Hairy heart
hairy heart n. See fibrinous pericarditis.
- Hairy leukoplakia
hairy leukoplakia n. A white raised lesion having keratin projections on its surface and appearing on the tongue and occasionally on the buccal mucosa of patients with AIDS.