How to Use myeloid in a Sentence

myeloid

adjective
Definition of myeloidnext
  • Their son, Cole, died in May of acute myeloid leukemia at age 11.
    — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
  • His wife, Mary Collier, said the cause was acute myeloid leukemia.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Philip Himberg, a longtime friend, said the cause was acute myeloid leukemia.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The Ward 1 seat has been vacant since the May 26 death of council member Rich Swirsky from acute myeloid leukemia.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland, 23 June 2021
  • Back in 2010, he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
    — Nate Chute, Indianapolis Star, 30 May 2018
  • He was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in March 2019.
    — Alysha Witwicki, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2020
  • This type of leukemia impact the myeloid stem cells in the bone marrow—the ones that go on to become healthy red and white blood cells, as well as platelets.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • The cause was acute myeloid leukemia, her daughter Julia Griffin said.
    — Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 1 July 2018
  • While she was given the all-clear to head home after two months, the cancer returned in the form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in August 2017.
    — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Benick, diagnosed last year with acute myeloid leukemia, died at his home in Noblesville.
    — David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 14 June 2018
  • Swirsky died last May following a battle with acute myeloid leukemia.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Rosenblum was 9 months old when he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Three days later, the results showed a blast cell which can be a precursor to acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a cancer.
    — Blake Sebring, Post-Tribune, 14 June 2018
  • Near the end of the piece, the same researcher is attributed as saying that the myeloid defects could be at the root of the runaway cytokine responses.
    — Robin Lloyd, Scientific American, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Collymore had been receiving treatment for acute myeloid leukemia in the UK and in Kenya for almost two years.
    — Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa, 1 July 2019
  • Those symptoms quickly led to the diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia.
    — Ronnie Wachter, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2017
  • Amelia was only seven months old when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
    — Akira Kumamoto, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2022
  • At 15, Park’s plans were put on hold when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and hospitalized for eight months.
    — Clarissa Cruz, Peoplemag, 7 July 2023
  • In 2018, he was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer known as an extramedullary myeloid tumor.
    — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 19 July 2023
  • Pam had acute myeloid leukemia, a disease oncologists had struggled to treat for decades.
    — Chadi Nabhan, STAT, 20 June 2018
  • Known as the Berlin patient, Timothy Ray Brown had needed a bone marrow transplant to treat his acute myeloid leukemia.
    — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Cameron had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive form of cancer, in 2011.
    — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The grant honors late film and television director Lynn Shelton, who died from acute myeloid leukemia in 2020.
    — Ej Panaligan, Variety, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Annaleise, now nearly 9 months old, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer that's rare in kids, in August of last year.
    — Anna Roberts, Fox News, 22 May 2018
  • The outgoing, joyful boy from Montgomery, Texas, had been battling first optic glioma and then acute myeloid leukemia.
    — Tracy Maness, Houston Chronicle, 15 Aug. 2019
  • At the start of training camp, Boyle was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia and returned in November, to only miss three games the rest of the season.
    — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 June 2018
  • O’Neill was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia in 2008 and her liver was failing.
    — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2019
  • As with the other types of leukemia, CML occurs when there's an uncontrolled growth of white blood cells—this time, both immature and mature ones, known as myeloid cells.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Valdes was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a rare, aggressive blood and bone marrow cancer.
    — Brooke Henderson, miamiherald, 2 June 2017
  • The first battle began July Fourth weekend 2010 when Brody was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia as a baby.
    — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Nov. 2021

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