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
Word Origin for leukaemia
C19: from
leuco- + Greek
haima blood
Words nearby leukaemia
leucotomy,
leucovorin,
leuctra,
leud,
leuk-,
leukaemia,
leukapheresis,
leukas,
leukemia,
leukemia cutis,
leukemic reticuloendotheliosis
Example sentences from the Web for leukaemia
Leukaemia patient Zakwan Anuar, 15, died two weeks after they visited his hospice in Kualar Lumpur, Malaysia, last month.