Definitions for "Macroglobulinemia"
Keywords:  waldenstrom, yuh, mack, glob, lin
See Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia.
A condition in which the blood contains high levels of large proteins and is too thick to flow through small blood vessels. One type is Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia, which is a type of cancer.
( mack-row- glob-yuh-lin- EE-mee-uh): condition with abnormally large proteins in the blood, which may reduce or clog blood flow in the smaller blood vessels. Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia is a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in which such proteins are present.
An increase of one type of immunoglobulin referred to as macroglobulin. It differs from other immunoglobulin molecules in being five times the size of standard-sized immunoglobulin. In this disease state, B lymphocytes produce an excess amount of this type of immunoglobulin. The malignant form of the disease, a type of chronic B lymphocyte leukemia, is referred to as Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, after the Swedish hematologist who described the first cases of the disease.
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