How to use leukemia in a sentence

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• Leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma are the principal types of blood cancer.From the entry blood cancer
• A leukemia cluster has developed in the town.From the entry cluster
• Oh, your dog has leukemia? That’s crushing.From the entry crushing
• But going back to my dad, he died four years ago of leukemia.2017, Russell Molina, “Magic Secrets, Revealed”, in Bumasa at Lumaya 2: A Sourcebook on Children's Literature in the Philippines, Anvil…. From the entry sayang
• In our laboratory immunophenotyping of acute leukemias is routinely performed from bone marrow mononuclear cell (MNC) preparations.2013 April 30, Elisa Einwallner, Almira Subasic, Andrea Strasser, Dorothea Augustin, Renate Thalhammer, Irene Steiner, Ilse Schwarzinger…. From the entry immunophenotype
• Although originally intended as an antidiabetic, vincristine at small doses was found to kill leukemia cells.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), pages 139–140. From the entry vincristine
• In children, leukemia was most commonly ALL—lymphoblastic leukemia—and was almost always swiftly lethal.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 17. From the entry all
• The disease that stood at the pivotal crossroads of oncology was yet another rare variant of leukemia called acute promyelocytic leukemia—APL.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 407. From the entry APL
• The other awardee that evening was Tom Frei, being honored for his advancement of the cure for leukemia.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 375. From the entry awardee
• Herein, we characterized the infecting microbe, host, micro- and mycobiomes leading up to infection onset in a leukemia patient that developed invasive mucormycosis.2015 November 11, “Implementation of a Pan-Genomic Approach to Investigate Holobiont-Infecting Microbe Interaction: A Case Report of a…. From the entry mucormycosis
• MOLT-4 is a T lymphoblast, suspension cell line derived from an acute lymphoblastic leukemia while the HL-60 cell line is a promyeloblast derived from acute promyelocytic leukemia.2015 August 22, “Genome Wide Expression Profiling of Cancer Cell Lines Cultured in Microgravity Reveals Significant Dysregulation of Cell…. From the entry promyeloblast
• In this issue of Blood, Dastugue and colleagues report their findings examining the impact of hyperdiploidy on the outcome of children with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).2013, Carroll WL, “Safety in numbers: hyperdiploidy and prognosis”, in Blood, volume 121, number 13, →DOI, →PMID, pages 2374–2376. From the entry hyperdiploidy

Meaning of leukemia

1. noun 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.

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Questions about leukemia in a sentence

How do you use leukemia in a sentence?

Leukemia is used as a noun. For example: “The subjects suffered from lymphoblastic and myeloid leukemias.”

What is a short sentence with leukemia?

“Oh, your dog has leukemia? That’s crushing.”

What does leukemia mean?

Leukemia means 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.