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    LEUCAEMIA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancerplay

    Synonyms:

    cancer of the blood; leucaemia; leukaemia; leukemia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("leucaemia" is a kind of...):

    cancer; malignant neoplastic disease (any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leucaemia"):

    acute leukemia (rapidly progressing leukemia)

    chronic leukemia (slowly progressing leukemia)

    lymphocytic leukemia (leukemia characterized by enlargement of lymphoid tissues and lymphocytic cells in the circulating blood)

    histiocytic leukaemia; histiocytic leukemia; monoblastic leukaemia; monoblastic leukemia; monocytic leukaemia; monocytic leukemia (leukemia characterized by the proliferation of monocytes and monoblasts in the blood)

    myeloblastic leukemia (a malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by numerous myeloblasts in the blood stream)

    granulocytic leukemia; myelocytic leukemia (a malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; marked by proliferation of myelocytes and their presence in the blood)

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