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sense of the word ''wikt:myeloid#Adjective, myeloid'' (''wikt:myelo-#Prefix, myelo-'' + ''wikt:-oid#Suffix, -oid''), is tissue (biology), tissue of bone marrow, of bone marrow cell lineage, or resembling bone marrow, and myelogenous tissue (''myelo-'' + ''wikt:-geny#Suffix, -genous'') is any tissue of, or arising from, bone marrow; in these word sense, senses the terms are usually used synonymously, as for example with chronic myelogenous leukemia, chronic myeloid/myelogenous leukemia. In haematopoiesis, hematopoiesis, myeloid or myelogenous cells are blood cells that arise from a progenitor cell for granulocytes, monocytes, erythrocytes, or platelets (the CFU-GEMM, common myeloid progenitor, that is, CMP or CFU-GEMM), or in a narrower sense also often used, specifically from the lineage of the myeloblast (the myelocytes, monocytes, and their daughter types). Thus, although all blood cells, even lymphocytes, are normally born in the bone marrow in adults, myeloid cells in the narrowest sense of the term can be distinguished from lymphocyte, lymphoid cells, that is, lymphocytes, which come from common lymphoid progenitor cells that give rise to B cells and T cells. Those cells' cellular differentiation, differentiation (that is, lymphopoiesis) is not complete until they migrate to lymphatic system, lymphatic organs such as the spleen and thymus for programming by antigen challenge. Thus, among white blood cell, leukocytes, the term ''myeloid'' is associated with the innate immune system, in contrast to ''lymphoid'', which is associated with the adaptive immune system. Similarly, ''myelogenous'' usually refers to nonlymphocytic white blood cells, and ''erythroid'' can often be used to distinguish "erythrocyte-related" from that sense of ''myeloid'' and from ''lymphoid''. The word ''myelopoiesis'' has several senses in a way that parallels those of ''myeloid'', and myelopoiesis in the narrower sense is the regulated formation specifically of myeloid leukocytes (myelocytes), allowing that sense of ''myelopoiesis'' to be contradistinguished from erythropoiesis and lymphopoiesis (even though all blood cells are normally produced in the marrow in adults). Myeloid neoplasms always concern bone marrow cell lineage and are related to Haematopoiesis, hematopoietic cells. Myeloid tissue can also be present in the liver and spleenSemester 4 medical lectures at Uppsala University 2008 by Leif Jansson in fetuses, and sometimes even in adults as well, which leads to extramedullary hematopoiesis. There is one other sense of ''myeloid'' that means "pertaining to the spinal cord", but it is much less commonly used. ''Myeloid'' should not be confused with ''myelin'', referring to an insulating layer covering the axons of many neurons.

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