myelosis /my·elo·sis/ (mi″ĕ-lo´sis)
1. myelocytosis.
2. formation of a tumor of the spinal cord.
erythremic myelosis erythroleukemia.
er·y·threm·ic myelosis ( r  -thrm  k, -thr mk)n. A neoplastic process involving the erythropoietic tissue, characterized by anemia, irregular fever, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, hemorrhagic disorders, and the presence of numerous erythroblasts in all stages of maturation in the circulating blood. |
erythremic myelosis
a myeloproliferative disorder of cats, rarely other species, manifested by marked anemia but with marked anisocytosis without an accompanying polychromasia. Large numbers of rubricytes can be found in the bone marrow and sometimes in the circulation. The condition has been compared to Di Guglielmo syndrome in humans. Feline leukemia virus has been implicated in the etiology.
blast form of erythremic myelosis
previously called reticuloendotheliosis, the predominant cell type is more primitive.
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