different between myeloproliferative vs myelofibrosis

English

myelo- +? proliferative

myeloproliferative (not comparable)

(medicine) of or pertaining to the presence of an abnormal proliferation of myelopoietic cells (from bone marrow)

myelo +? fibrosis

IPA^(key): /?ma? ? lo? fa??b?o? s?s/

myelofibrosis (countable and uncountable, plural myelofibroses)

collagen deposition by fibroblasts in the bone marrow, whether primary or secondary to other causes such as medication.

The term usually refers to PMF (primary myelofibrosis), but secondary forms also exist, e.g. due to polycythemia vera or essential thrombocythaemia).

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