leukaemia

/ luːˈkiːmɪə /

noun

1. 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 History and Origins

Origin of leukaemia¹

C19: from leuco- + Greek haima blood

Example Sentences

"Just recently we were learning about leukaemia and stem cell treatment. My Biology teacher was amazing," she said.

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In 2017, he revealed he had been diagnosed with a form of leukaemia.

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Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006 at the age of 15, will be the first millennial - a person born in the early 1980s to late 1990s - to be canonised by the Catholic church.

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In an emotional conversation, McGuigan told his jungle campmates on the ITV reality show about how she originally recovered from leukaemia as a child after two years of treatment.

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But Charlotte began to research her daughter's symptoms and approached her GP again - this time querying leukaemia, and they agreed to do some blood tests.

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