Leukaemia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of leukemia. Commonwealth, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "1979, Medical Association of South Africa, South African Medical Journal, Volume 55, Issues 1-14, page 9, On the other hand, adult respiratory distress syndrome is a prominent complication in patients with acute leukaemia and to this must be added the whole spectrum of opportunistic infections."

  2. 2
    malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer wordnet

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