Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun leukemia

1 sense of leukemia

Sense 1
leukemia, leukaemia, leucaemia, cancer of the blood -- (malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer)
       => cancer, malignant neoplastic disease -- (any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream)