leukaemia

CEFRC1

/luːˈkiːmiə/

noun

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    noun

    A serious disease in which the body makes too many abnormal blood cells.

Examples

  • The doctors treated the young boy for leukaemia.

  • Leukaemia treatment has improved over time.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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In context

  • The patient was diagnosed with leukaemia.

  • 1979, Medical Association of South Africa, South African Medical Journal, Volume 55, Issues 1-14, page 9, On the other hand, adult respiratory distress syndrome is a prominent complication in patients with acute leukaemia and to this must be added the whole s...

  • 1992, Charles L. Sawyers, The bcr-abl Gene in Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia, Owen N. Witte (editor), Cancer Surveys, Volume 15: Oncogenes in the Development of Leukaemia, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, page 37, The molecular biologists′ vision that the...

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