myelosclerosisn.
/ˌmʌɪələʊsklᵻˈrəʊsɪs/, U.S. /ˈˌmaɪəloʊskləˈroʊsəs/ Medicine.† 1. Fibrosis of the spinal cord. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1890 G. M. Gould New Med. Dict. 292/2 Myelosclerosis, sclerosis of the spinal cord or of the marrow of bones.
2. Progressive fibrosis of the bone marrow; = myelofibrosis n.
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1890 G. M. Gould New Med. Dict. 292/2 Myelosclerosis, sclerosis of the spinal cord or of the marrow of bones.
1961 Lancet 9 Sept. 588/2 Since we have no really effective treatment either for aplastic anæmia in childhood or for myelosclerosis in the elderly, further work on androgen therapy for these conditions would be welcome.
1977 Lancet 3 Sept. 513/2 We have investigated an 81-year-old man who presented with malignant myelosclerosis.
1987 D. J. Weatherall et al. Oxf. Textbk. Med. (ed. 2) II. xix. 40/1 The term ‘myelosclerosis’ is used to describe progressive fibrous replacement of the bone marrow; it is used synonymously with myelofibrosis.
1997 Hematol. Oncol. 15 173 The unique observations provided in this analysis are the similarity of the sex-specific curves by age for acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplasia types, polycythemia rubra vera, and myelofibrosis (or myelosclerosis).
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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