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Malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues
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leukemia
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) A type of malignancy affecting the blood cells or blood-forming tissues.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE acute ▪ Hereditary and acquired p53 mutations in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia . ▪ The topic was acute myeloid leukemia , the deadliest form of leukemia. ▪ Central nervous system treatment in childhood ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Leukemia , also spelled leukaemia , is a group of cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal white blood cells . These white blood cells are not fully developed and are called blasts or leukemia cells . Symptoms ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer [syn: leukaemia , leucaemia , cancer of the blood ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1851, on model of German Leukämie (1848), coined by R. Virchow from Greek leukos "clear, white" (cognate with Gothic liuhaþ , Old English leoht "light;" see light (n.)) + haima "blood" (see -emia ).
Usage examples of leukemia.
Blood-borne cancers such as leukemia are not like tumors in the usual sense.
Leukemia was the epitome of my helplessness, for the treatment was to bomb the bone marrow with cell poisons called cytotoxins until it looked, under the microscope, like Hiroshima, all black, empty, and scorched.
They moved to Leicestershire in 1973, after their daughter Valerie died from leukemia.
During his last month of third grade, their elder son, Toby, was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia.
Emma Eldridge had lost more than twenty pounds since her daughter was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia.
Acute lymphocytic leukemia was one of the most common forms of cancer they dealt with, and also one that frequently demanded blood transfusions.
Except for increasing exhaustion and continued weight loss, she had manifested no signs or symptoms of acute lymphocytic leukemia, AIDS, or any other disorder known to medical science.
This pleased her immensely because this blood was from a woman who, seven years earlier, while a student in medical school, had faced a death sentence from acute myelocytic leukemia .
I was in medical school I was diagnosed with acute myelocytic leukemia .
Barton tells us he started to write his latest tale just as he came down with what was thought to be acute myelogenous leukemia.
It was during such a corridor conversation that I first learned of a new therapy for chronic myelogenous leukemia, called Gleevec.
Western Peds, where Sandra Leon had been treated for leukemia, was a couple of blocks east.
Longuet regards the condition of the blood in leukemia as the cause of such priapism, and considers that the circulation of the blood is retarded in the smaller vessels, while, owing to the great increase in the number of white corpuscles, thrombi are formed.
Their main targets were viral infections like HIV and various forms of cancer, especially leukemia.
Less than a month later, Charlotte Franklin’s malady would be diagnosed as incurable, and six weeks after that she’d be dead from leukemia.