leukemia
noun
leu·ke·mia
lü-ˈkē-mē-ə 
: an acute or chronic disease in humans and other warm-blooded animals characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the tissues and often in the blood
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The director’s cause of death has been reported as complications related to secondary plasma cell leukemia.
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Zac Ntim, Deadline, 19 June 2024
Forde, meanwhile, needed the goal even more, as this was his first game back with the team after going on compassionate leave after his brother was diagnosed with leukemia and his wife was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2024
Roe Roe was just three years old when she was diagnosed with leukemia.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 31 May 2024
Some ASOs, however, are being developed to disable lncRNAs that are associated with cancers such as lung cancer and acute myeloid leukemia.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
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Zac Ntim, Deadline, 19 June 2024
Forde, meanwhile, needed the goal even more, as this was his first game back with the team after going on compassionate leave after his brother was diagnosed with leukemia and his wife was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2024
Roe Roe was just three years old when she was diagnosed with leukemia.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 31 May 2024
Some ASOs, however, are being developed to disable lncRNAs that are associated with cancers such as lung cancer and acute myeloid leukemia.
—Philip Ball, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
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leukemia
noun
leu·ke·mia
lü-ˈkē-mē-ə
: a disease of warm-blooded animals including human beings that is a kind of cancer in which there is an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the tissues and often in the blood
Medical Definition
leukemia
noun
leu·ke·mia
lü-ˈkē-mē-ə
variants
also leucemia
or chiefly British leukaemia
also leucaemia
lü-ˈkē- also lü-ˈsē-
: an acute or chronic disease of unknown cause in humans and other warm-blooded animals that involves the blood-forming organs, is characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the tissues of the body with or without a corresponding increase of those in the circulating blood, and is classified according to the type of white blood cell most prominently involved see acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myelogenous leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia, feline leukemia, lymphoblastic leukemia, lymphocytic leukemia, monocytic leukemia, myelogenous leukemia, promyelocytic leukemia
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