CHRONIC LEUKEMIA

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 I. (noun) 

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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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