leukemia

Other forms of leukemia

plural

leukemias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about leukemia

What does leukemia mean?

leukemia means "malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer".

How many syllables are in leukemia?

leukemia has 4 syllables: le-u-ke-mia. The stress falls on "u". In IPA it is /luˈkimiə/.

What is another word for leukemia?

Close synonyms include leukaemia, leucaemia, cancer of the blood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is leukemia a common word?

leukemia is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.