processus polymitotique

11:14 Nov 18, 2014 

It seems to me that, in context, what is meant is that no testing for additional malignancy (of any kind) was conducted during the hospital stay (given the patient's age and the fact that the cause of the existing myeloma was already established).

This is different than saying that no testing for polymitotic processes was conducted, because that could imply (logically, in any case) that there might have been testing for other kinds of pathologic mitosis processes.

This is especially so when we have evidence of the fact that, in French, "polymitose" is a medical euphemism for cancer. Here is another link to that effect (from https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer#Terminologie_et_.C3.A9t... ):
"Du fait d'une image négative sur le pronostic auprès du public, le cancer a de nombreux synonymes employés par les médecins : tumeur maligne, néoplasie, néoplasme, polymitose, carcinome, etc."

In contrast, references to "polymitosis" in English seem to involve genetics. For example, see:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=polymitosis

In other words, there is also a question of register here.

(In any case, all of this about something other than "polymyositis".)