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CHRONIC LEUKEMIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Slowly progressing leukemia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("chronic leukemia" is a kind of...):
cancer of the blood; leucaemia; leukaemia; leukemia (malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chronic leukemia"):
chronic lymphocytic leukemia (chronic leukemia characterized by lymphoblast-like cells; more common in older men)
chronic myelocytic leukemia; myeloid leukemia (chronic leukemia characterized by granular leukocytes; more common in older people)
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