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noun
Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, oncology, pathology, sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: leukaemia, leucaemia, cancer of the blood
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cancer, malignant neoplastic disease
Narrower terms: acute leukemia, chronic leukemia, lymphocytic leukemia, monocytic leukemia, monocytic leukaemia, monoblastic leukemia, monoblastic leukaemia, histiocytic leukemia, histiocytic leukaemia, myeloblastic leukemia, myelocytic leukemia, granulocytic leukemia
History
From German Leukämie, from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, leuk- + -emia.
Across languages
105 source translations are retained for this English entry.
