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leukaemia

leukaemia is the alternative spelling 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.

Forms of leukaemia

pluralleukaemias

Words formed from leukaemia

Phrases with leukaemia

Questions about leukaemia

What is leukaemia the alternative spelling of?
Leukaemia is the alternative spelling of leukemia.

Words near leukaemia in the dictionary

  1. Leugers
  2. Leugerses
  3. Leuk
  4. leuk-
  5. Leukadia
  6. leukaemia
  7. leukaemia cutis
  8. leukaemias
  9. leukaemiavirus
  10. leukaemiaviruses
  11. leukaemic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leukaemia (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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