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

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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Angela's daughter Johanna had been diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia, a type of cancer which affects the white blood cells and bone marrow, at just 16 years old.

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The Ball family, from Billericay, Essex, had arrived at Disney World Orlando on Saturday to celebrate their youngest child beating leukaemia.

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Medics now want to find a suitable donor so he can undergo a stem cell transplant to prevent the leukaemia taking hold again.

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