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leuchaemia

leuchaemia is the archaic form of leukemia.

Meaning of leukemia

Noun

leukemia (countable and uncountable, plural leukemias)

  1. 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.

Questions about leuchaemia

What is leuchaemia the archaic form of?
Leuchaemia is the archaic form of leukemia.

Words near leuchaemia in the dictionary

  1. leucemia
  2. leucemias
  3. leucemic
  4. leucencephalopathy
  5. leucenol
  6. leuchaemia
  7. Leuchars
  8. leuchemia
  9. leuchemias
  10. leuchtenbergite
  11. leuchtenbergites

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leuchaemia (page history and authors); leukemia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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