leukemia

• leucaemia
• leucemia
• leukaemia (UK)
• leucæmia, leuchaemia, leuchemia, leukæmia, leuchæmia, leukhæmia (archaic)

From German Leukämie, from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, leuk- +‎ -emia.

• IPA^(key): /luːˈkiːmi.ə/

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leukemia (countable and uncountable, plural leukemias)

2. (oncology, pathology) Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.

   The subjects suffered from lymphoblastic and myeloid leukemias.

   • 2012 January, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 9 September 2014, page 87:

     In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.

Internationalism (see German Leukämie).

• IPA^(key): /ˈleu̯kemiɑ/, [ˈle̞u̯k̟e̞ˌmiɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -iɑ
• Syllabification^(key): leu‧ke‧mi‧a
• Hyphenation^(key): leu‧ke‧mia

leukemia

1. leukemia

• “leukemia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023