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 most common types of leukemia include:4 Acute myeloid leukemia (AML): More than 20% of cells are blasts (immature and dysfunctional), and symptoms develop more quickly.
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Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
Three months into this new relationship, I was diagnosed with a fierce and often fatal leukemia.
—Delia Ephron, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2024
Davis, a former walk-on who overcame leukemia in high school, was 15 of 25 for 118 yards with a touchdown and an interception.
—Larry Lage, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2024
In November 2012, 18-year-old Meredith Littlejohn was a high school senior eagerly awaiting college acceptance letters, prom, and graduation when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a type of rapidly progressing blood and bone cancer.
—Jess Craig, Vox, 16 Aug. 2024
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Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 26 Sep. 2024
Three months into this new relationship, I was diagnosed with a fierce and often fatal leukemia.
—Delia Ephron, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2024
Davis, a former walk-on who overcame leukemia in high school, was 15 of 25 for 118 yards with a touchdown and an interception.
—Larry Lage, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2024
In November 2012, 18-year-old Meredith Littlejohn was a high school senior eagerly awaiting college acceptance letters, prom, and graduation when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a type of rapidly progressing blood and bone cancer.
—Jess Craig, Vox, 16 Aug. 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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