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hairy cell leukemia

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noun

  1. a form of cancer in which abnormal cells with many hairlike cytoplasmic projections appear in the bone marrow, liver, spleen, and blood.

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Hematopoietic stem cell origin of BRAFV600E mutations in hairy cell leukemia.

From Nature • Jan. 23, 2018

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