LEUKEMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leukemia mean? 

• LEUKEMIA (noun)
  The noun LEUKEMIA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: LEUKEMIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEUKEMIA (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cancer of the blood; leucaemia; leukaemia; leukemia

Hypernyms ("leukemia" 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 "leukemia"):

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)