also  leu*ce*mia  or chiefly Brit  leu*kae*mia  also  leu*cae*mia  n :  an acute or chronic disease of unknown cause in humans and other warm-blooded animals that involves the blood-forming organs, is characterized by an abnormal increase in the number of white blood cells in the tissues of the body with or without a corresponding increase of those in the circulating blood, and is classified according to the type of white blood cell most prominently involved - see ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA ACUTE MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA CHRONIC MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA FELINE LEUKEMIA LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA MONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA MYELOGENOUS LEUKEMIA PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA  .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  le·gume  leu·ko·ma  lo·cum 
 
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