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Definition of Leukaemia

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

Definition of Leukaemia

1. Noun. (UK oncology) A group of cancers of the blood-forming tissues; a cancer of this group. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Leukaemia

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Medical Definition of Leukaemia

1. An acute or chronic disease of unknown cause in man and other warm blooded animals that involves the blood forming organs, is characterised by an abnormal increase in the number of leucocytes in the tissues of the body with or without a corresponding increase of those in the circulating blood and is classified according of the type leucocyte most prominently involved. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Leukaemia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1907)
"Since the discovery of the remarkable effects of X-ray upon the blood, spleen, and glands in leukaemia, numerous attempts have been made to explain its ..."

2. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell (1893)
"The splenic tumor of leukaemia has actually been extirpated surgically ; but the proceeding is so ineffectual and so fatal that it is now universally ..."

3. Medical Diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine : a Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1890)
"leukaemia.—This morbid state consists in a decided increase of the white corpuscles and a decrease of the red. Under the microscope the white globules of ..."

4. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"Ehrlich prefers to call this type of the disease " myelogenous leukaemia," ... (2) Lymphatic leukaemia, in which the changes are chiefly localized in the ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1893)
"of red and white corpuscles were those found in leukaemia, Huber noted ... In Leber's case of leukaemia, as in my own of chloroma, there was no choke-disk. ..."

6. Clinical Diagnosis: A Text-book of Clinical Microscopy and Clinical by Charles Phillips Emerson (1908)
"Of 13 cases of acute leukaemia in children, collected by McCrae,"2 the anaemia ... In these cases the anaemia is the important feature ; the leukaemia would ..."

7. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1895)
"TIME has not permitted a complete study of the present case of leukaemia. ... The case was one of leukaemia, treated in the Philadelphia Hospital under the ..."

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