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LEUKAEMIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does leukaemia mean?
• LEUKAEMIA (noun)
The noun LEUKAEMIA has 1 sense:
1. malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer
Familiarity information: LEUKAEMIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
cancer of the blood; leucaemia; leukaemia; leukemia
Hypernyms ("leukaemia" is a kind of...):
cancer; malignant neoplastic disease (any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leukaemia"):
acute leukemia (rapidly progressing leukemia)
chronic leukemia (slowly progressing leukemia)
lymphocytic leukemia (leukemia characterized by enlargement of lymphoid tissues and lymphocytic cells in the circulating blood)
histiocytic leukaemia; histiocytic leukemia; monoblastic leukaemia; monoblastic leukemia; monocytic leukaemia; monocytic leukemia (leukemia characterized by the proliferation of monocytes and monoblasts in the blood)
myeloblastic leukemia (a malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by numerous myeloblasts in the blood stream)
granulocytic leukemia; myelocytic leukemia (a malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; marked by proliferation of myelocytes and their presence in the blood)
Context examples
Chronic myelogenous leukaemia (CML) is a biphasic disease, initiated by expression of the BCR/ABL fusion gene product in self-renewing, haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs).
(Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
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