leukemia
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See also: leukémia
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- leucaemia
- leucemia
- leukaemia (UK)
- leucæmia, leuchaemia, leuchemia, leukæmia, leuchæmia, leukhæmia (archaic)
Etymology
[edit]From German Leukämie, from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, leuk- + -emia.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /luːˈkiːmi.ə/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]leukemia (countable and uncountable, plural leukemias)
- 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.
- 2012 January, Philip E. Mirowski, “Harms to Health from the Pursuit of Profits”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 87:
- In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]cancer of blood forming tissue
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Internationalism (see German Leukämie).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]leukemia
Declension
[edit]Inflection of leukemia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | leukemia | leukemiat | |
genitive | leukemian | leukemioiden leukemioitten | |
partitive | leukemiaa | leukemioita | |
illative | leukemiaan | leukemioihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | leukemia | leukemiat | |
accusative | nom. | leukemia | leukemiat |
gen. | leukemian | ||
genitive | leukemian | leukemioiden leukemioitten leukemiain rare | |
partitive | leukemiaa | leukemioita | |
inessive | leukemiassa | leukemioissa | |
elative | leukemiasta | leukemioista | |
illative | leukemiaan | leukemioihin | |
adessive | leukemialla | leukemioilla | |
ablative | leukemialta | leukemioilta | |
allative | leukemialle | leukemioille | |
essive | leukemiana | leukemioina | |
translative | leukemiaksi | leukemioiksi | |
abessive | leukemiatta | leukemioitta | |
instructive | — | leukemioin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
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Further reading
[edit]- “leukemia”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
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