leukaemia
esp US leukemia
/ (luːˈkiːmɪə) /
noun
an acute or chronic disease characterized by a gross proliferation of leucocytes, which crowd into the bone marrow, spleen, lymph nodes, etc, and suppress the blood-forming apparatus
Nearby words
leucotomy, leucovorin, leuctra, leud, leuk-, leukaemia, leukapheresis, leukas, leukemia, leukemia cutis, leukemic
Word Origin for leukaemia
C19: from leuco- + Greek haima blood
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Examples from the Web for leukaemia
Leukaemia patient Zakwan Anuar, 15, died two weeks after they visited his hospice in Kualar Lumpur, Malaysia, last month.
Word Origin and History for leukaemia
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