refractory anaemia with excess blasts

Alternative forms

 * RAEB

Noun

 * 1)  One of the myelodysplastic syndromes, namely having between 5-20% myeloblasts in the bone marrow; by the WHO further subdivided into RAEB-1 and RAEB-2, with 5-9% and 10-19% blasts, respectively.

Hypernyms

 * myelodysplastic syndrome

Related terms

 * RAEB-1
 * RAEB-2