Plasma cell leukemia
plasma cell leukemia n.
A disease characterized by leukocytosis and other symptoms suggestive of leukemia and associated with diffuse infiltration and aggregation of plasma cells in the spleen, liver, bone marrow, and lymph nodes and by significant numbers of plasma cells in the blood.
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