leukemia

/loo-kee-mee-uh/US // luˈki mi ə //

白血病,血癌,贫血

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Pathology.
- : any of several cancers of the bone marrow that prevent the normal manufacture of red and white blood cells and platelets, resulting in anemia, increased susceptibility to infection, and impaired blood clotting.

Examples

Then there was the strength she showed when she continued to coach as her then-2-year-old son Tyler was diagnosed and treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
In 2018, three years after she had passed away from leukemia, I went to New Jersey to meet with Olver’s family.
Marilyn Rose, who was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia three years ago, until recently was paying nothing out-of-pocket for her cancer drug, Sprycel, which has a list price of $176,500 a year.
Cole was diagnosed with leukemia in February, and when he met Aldrete, he was at a particularly perilous point in his treatment.
The typical cost of a leukemia patient for taking Gleevec is on the order of $100,000 to $150,000 a year.
Blister rust is like having the flu; the pine beetle is like fast acting leukemia.
Sadly, though she folded more than 1,000 cranes, she died of leukemia on October 25, 1955.
Last year the FDA approved its use for another kind of leukemia that affects children.
Gleevec treats myeloid leukemia and has turned a terminal disease into a chronic one for many patients.
Diagnosed with refractory acute myeloid leukemia at age 7, Sam was very brave but also very sick.
It occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.
(c) They are decreased in chronic lymphatic leukemia, and greatly increased in the myelogenous form.
Pathologically, normoblasts occur in severe symptomatic anemia, leukemia, and pernicious anemia.
A marked increase, accompanied by an increase in the total leukocyte count, is seen in pertussis and lymphatic leukemia.
A notable increase is limited almost exclusively to myelogenous leukemia, where they are sometimes very numerous.

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Examples

Then there was the strength she showed when she continued to coach as her then-2-year-old son Tyler was diagnosed and treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

In 2018, three years after she had passed away from leukemia, I went to New Jersey to meet with Olver’s family.

Marilyn Rose, who was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia three years ago, until recently was paying nothing out-of-pocket for her cancer drug, Sprycel, which has a list price of $176,500 a year.

Cole was diagnosed with leukemia in February, and when he met Aldrete, he was at a particularly perilous point in his treatment.

The typical cost of a leukemia patient for taking Gleevec is on the order of $100,000 to $150,000 a year.

Blister rust is like having the flu; the pine beetle is like fast acting leukemia.

Sadly, though she folded more than 1,000 cranes, she died of leukemia on October 25, 1955.

Last year the FDA approved its use for another kind of leukemia that affects children.

Gleevec treats myeloid leukemia and has turned a terminal disease into a chronic one for many patients.

Diagnosed with refractory acute myeloid leukemia at age 7, Sam was very brave but also very sick.

It occurs in well-marked cases of pernicious anemia and leukemia, and, much less commonly, in very severe symptomatic anemias.

Pathologically, normoblasts occur in severe symptomatic anemia, leukemia, and pernicious anemia.

A marked increase, accompanied by an increase in the total leukocyte count, is seen in pertussis and lymphatic leukemia.

A notable increase is limited almost exclusively to myelogenous leukemia, where they are sometimes very numerous.