LEUKEMIA

leukemia, leukaemia, leucaemia, cancer of the blood

(noun) malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

leukemia (countable and uncountable, plural leukemias)

A type of malignancy affecting the blood cells or blood-forming tissues.

(countable) Any specific form or type of cancer of the blood-forming tissues.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest collection of coffee pots belongs to Robert Dahl (Germany) and consists of 27,390 coffee pots as of 2 November 2012, in Rövershagen, Germany.

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