Definitions for leukemia

leukemia leu·ke·mi·a

Spelling: [loo-kee-mee-uh]
IPA: /luˈki mi ə/

Leukemia is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 167 anagrams from letters in leukemia (aeeiklmu).

Definitions for leukemia

noun

  1. any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.

Origin of leukemia

1850-55; earlier leuchaemia German Leukämie (1848). See leuco-, -emia

Examples for leukemia

Pseudoleukemia, because of its clinical similarity to lymphatic leukemia, is generally described along with leukemia.

While she was recovering from her extensive injuries, doctors discovered she was also suffering from leukemia.

Last year the FDA approved its use for another kind of leukemia that affects children.

Pathologically, normoblasts occur in severe symptomatic anemia, leukemia, and pernicious anemia.

Kekua, the story went, died of leukemia; she was diagnosed with the disease after a nasty car accident.

They occur most abundantly in malaria, leukemia, and pernicious anemia.

Sadly, though she folded more than 1,000 cranes, she died of leukemia on October 25, 1955.

Jack had another daughter who died of leukemia in 1977 when she was 14 years old.

It occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.

Now Kenneth was Allie; his "heart troubles" were leukemia; he died at 11, not 12.

Word Value for leukemia
Scrable

14

Words with friends

17

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