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US
/ɫuˈkimiə/
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NOUN
- malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer
How To Use leukemia In A Sentence
- ATF5, in turn, promotes survival by stimulating transcription of myeloid cell leukemia sequence-1 (MCL1), an antiapoptotic B cell leukemia-2 family member. Naturejobs - All Jobs
- Tests showed it contained benzene, a chemical believed to cause aplastic anemia and leukemia, in a concentration 1,500 times the level safe for people. Susan Deily-Swearingen: So When Does the Sputnik Moment Begin?
- With Lazarus, he published a book that dealt with normal blood and the appearance of blood cells in various pathologic states, including leukocytosis, leukopenia, leukemia, and anemia.
- Objective To diagnose and treat leukemia, protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) activities were studied in human blood and myelogenic cell.
- Maria Jose had entered the hospital in May suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, meaning her body produced too many white blood cells. Maria Jose Martinez Gets Treatment For Leukemia In Nicaraguan Hospital
- Stem cell transplantation is commonly used for a variety of malignant disorders such as leukemias and lymphomas.
- The workers were found to have increased risk for leukemia and multiple myeloma (cancer of the bone marrow).
- One study at Loyola University in Chicago found that curcumin - the compound that gives turmeric its yellow color - prevents leukemia cells from multiplying in human cell cultures.
- Relapse-related mortality was increased among patients with Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
- PDZ-binding motifs are also present in the Tax proteins of human T-lymphotrophic (HTLV) type 1 viruses (HTLV-1) (peptide 2) that cause adult T-cell leukemia / lymphoma (ATLL), but are absent from HTLV type 2 viruses that do not cause lymphoproliferative disorders [ PLoS Biology: New Articles