Associations to the word «Leukemia»

Wiktionary

LEUKEMIA, noun. A type of malignancy affecting the blood cells or blood-forming tissues.
LEUKEMIA, noun. (countable) Any specific form or type of cancer of the blood-forming tissues.

Dictionary definition

LEUKEMIA, noun. Malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope