"leukaemia" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: leukaemias [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} leukaemia (countable and uncountable, plural leukaemias)
  1. (UK) Alternative spelling of leukemia Tags: UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: leukemia Categories (topical): Oncology Related terms: leukaemic

Inflected forms

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          "text": "1979, Medical Association of South Africa, South African Medical Journal, Volume 55, Issues 1-14, page 9,\nOn the other hand, adult respiratory distress syndrome is a prominent complication in patients with acute leukaemia and to this must be added the whole spectrum of opportunistic infections."
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          "text": "2009, M. C. G. Israëls, The Shortcomings of Animal Research in Leukæmia, Ciba Foundation Symposium, Leukaemia Research, page 28,\nIn transmitted mouse leukaemia the cells remain fixed in type, but tissue culture methods applied to human acute leukaemias show that these cells are not fixed in type."
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          "text": "2010, Sheryl Persson, Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation: Medical Breakthroughs That Changed the World, Exisle Publishing, NSW, page 283,\nThere are different types of childhood leukaemia, which can be classified as acute or chronic. In children, about 98 per cent of leukaemias are acute."
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